Name-informing and distancing sogenannt ‘so-called’: Name mentioning and the lexicon-pragmatics interface

This paper aims at a unified analysis of the different interpretations which constructions involving the German name-mentioning modifier sogenannt ‘so-called’ can adopt. In contrast to nouns like Sepsis ‘sepsis’, a noun like Hotel ‘hotel’, as in sogenanntes Hotel, gives rise to a “distanced” inte...

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Main Author: Härtl Holden
Format: Article
Language:deu
Published: De Gruyter 2018-11-01
Series:Zeitschrift für Sprachwissenschaft
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1515/zfs-2018-0008