Pragmatic and Semantic Analysis of the Structure “Relax to (Below / Above / Within / Beyond / Under, etc.) XX”

DOI

10.2991/assehr.k.191217.158How to use a DOI?

Keywords

“relax to below XX”, pragmatics, semantics, context, presupposition

Abstract

There are scholars who think that “relax to below XX” is a mixed sentence pattern. However, by reorganizing and investigating the linguistic data in CCL and BCC corpus, and reanalyzing the structure from the perspective of the background of pragmatic discourse and the presupposition of speakers and receivers, it is found that “relax to below XX” and relevant structures conform to pragmatic norms.

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© 2020, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Xiaoling Gu
PY  - 2020
DA  - 2020/02/14
TI  - Pragmatic and Semantic Analysis of the Structure “Relax to (Below / Above / Within / Beyond / Under, etc.) XX”
BT  - Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Education, Language, Art and Inter-cultural Communication (ICELAIC 2019)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 406
EP  - 410
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.191217.158
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.191217.158
ID  - Gu2020
ER  -