Relevance Communication And Cognition

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Encyclopaedia Of Occupational Health And Safety

The Oxford Dictionary of Pragmatics

Nowadays, it has become commonly accepted that the meaning of linguistic elements is interconnected with the context of their use. Deixis is one of the classical pragmatic phenomena that illustrates that context-dependence is inherent in language as meaning of deictic expressions cannot be constructed without the identification of the speech event where these expressions occurred. The present article discusses cases of time deixis in the context of engineering discourse. The goal of the research is to demonstrate how the deictic expression use in different genres of professional discourse impacts meaning construction. The study deals with the data obtained from scientific articles, encyclopaedia chapters and coursebooks. The findings indicate that temporal deictic expressions can be utilized both deictically and non-deictically and their frequency may depend on the genre within each professional discourse. Further research can be conducted to investigate the use of other categories of deictic expressions in engineering discourse.

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Time Deixis in Engineering Discourse

The  lexical concept adjustment represents a  significant aspect of the  pragmatic meaning and has been approached from several perspectives in literature. As the  semantics-pragmatics interface is a  matter that attracts numerous debates among pragmaticians, the  boundary between cases of polysemy and the semantic meaning adjustment in the context is also blurred. There has been no agreement whether a  lexical concept adjustment can be regarded as a primary (necessary) or a secondary (optional) pragmatic process. The  present article discusses cases of meaning disambiguation and lexical narrowing. The  aim of the  article is to  demonstrate how a  lexical concept adjustment contributes to the pragmatic meaning construction in the discourse under analysis. The present paper deals with the data obtained from the chapters on woodworking and metal processing borrowed from the  Encyclopaedia of Occupational Health and Safety. The findings indicate that there is no clear-cut boundary between the  processes of the  lexical meaning disambiguation and a lexical concept adjustment as they both elaborate on the linguistic (semantic) meaning of a  word or an  expression taking into consideration all aspects of the  contextual information available. Further research can be conducted to approach the issue from the quantitative perspective.

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Jekaterina Čerņevska

Papers

Lexical Concept Adjustment in Mechanical Engineering Discourse

Time Deixis in Engineering Discourse