The Oxford Handbook of Expressivity

Erscheinungsjahr 2026
ISBN: 978-0-19-886945-0
Verlag: Oxford University Press

Buch, Englisch, 1344 Seiten, Format (B × H): 175 mm x 251 mm, Gewicht: 1854 g

This handbook offers a detailed and wide-ranging account of expressivity, the essential property that allows natural language to not just describe something in the world, but to directly express or display the speaker's attitudes or emotions. Following the editors' introduction, which outlines the expressive turn in linguistics, the volume is divided into five parts. Part I lays out the historical background and foundations of expressivity in philology, philosophy, semiotics, and rhetoric, before Part II shows how it plays a major role in all linguistic domains, fields of research, and frameworks, from syntax and semantics to corpus linguistics and neurolinguistics. Chapters in Part III explore specific linguistic phenomena such as slurs, interjections, honorifics, and metaphor, while those in Part IV show how the concept of expressivity is valuable in domains beyond traditional linguistic boundaries, including in pedagogy, law, and music. Finally, Part V presents a cross-linguistic perspective, revealing how expressivity manifests differently across a range of languages, from French and German to Japanese and Mandarin. Providing critical surveys of existing research as well as new insights and innovative perspectives, The Oxford Handbook of Expressivity will be an indispensable resource for linguists, philosophers, and cognitive scientists.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Gutzmann, Daniel

Turgay, Katharina

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- 1: Daniel Gutzmann and Katharina Turgay: Expressivity: An introduction

- Part I. Background and foundations

- 2: Laurence R. Horn: Expressivity in early philosophy and philology

- 3: Thorsten Sander: Expressivity in modern philosophy of language

- 4: Robert E. Innis: Expressivity in semiotics

- 5: James Martin: Expressivity in rhetoric

- 6: Dorit Bar-On: Expressivity in and before language

- Part II. Linguistic domains

- 7: Michael Adams: Expressivity and the lexicon

- 8: Jeffrey P. Williams: Expressivity and morphology

- 9: Andrés Saab: Expressivity and syntax

- 10: Daniel Gutzmann: Expressivity and multidimensional semantics

- 11: Robert Henderson: Expressivity and dynamic semantics

- 12: Lukas Müller: Expressivity and semantic change

- 13: Maria Paola Tenchini and Aldo Frigerio: Expressivity and speech acts

- 14: Manuel Padilla Cruz: Expressivity and relevance theory

- 15: Rita Finkbeiner: Expressivity and construction grammar

- 16: Konstanze Marx-Wischnowski: Expressivity and discourse analysis

- 17: Mariia Pronina, Ingo Feldhausen, and Pilar Prieto: Expressivity and prosody

- 18: Shlomit Ritz Finkelstein and Lynne C. Nygaard: Expressivity and neurolinguistics

- 19: Filippo Domaneschi and Camilo Rodriguez Ronderos: Expressivity and psycholinguistics

- 20: Elizabeth Hanks, Niall Curry, Emily Sharp, Gavin Brookes, and Tony McEnery: Expressivity and corpus linguistics

- 21: Tatjana Scheffler: Expressivity and computational linguistics

- Part III. Linguistic phenomena

- 22: Fabian Bross: Expressivity and adjectives

- 23: Katharina Turgay: Expressivity and slurs

- 24: Ulrike Stange-Hundsdörfer: Expressivity and interjections

- 25: David Y. Oshima: Expressivity and honorifics

- 26: Patrícia Amaral: Expressivity and pronouns

- 27: Gerhard Schaden: Expressivity and vocatives

- 28: Ulrike Stange-Hundsdörfer: Expressivity and intensifiers

- 29: Andreas Trotzke: Expressivity and information structure

- 30: Christopher Davis: Expressivity and sentence types

- 31: Ad Foolen: Expressivity and metaphor

- Part IV. Further applications

- 32: Ariana N. Mohammadi: Expressivity and bilingualism

- 33: Andreas Trotzke: Expressivity and pedagogical linguistics

- 34: Stefan Hinterwimmer: Expressivity and perspectivity

- 35: Cornelia Ebert and Sebastian Walter: Expressivity and gestures

- 36: Patrick G. Grosz: Expressivity and emojis

- 37: Andreas Osterroth: Expressivity and the media

- 38: Patrik. N. Juslin: Expressivity and music

- 39: Katharina Felka and Andreas Stokke: Expressivity and lying

- 40: Elyse Methven: Expressivity and law

- 41: Andreas Triantafyllopoulos and Björn Schuller: Expressivity and speech synthesis

- Part V. Expressivity across languages

- 42: Daniel Gutzmann and Katharina Turgay: Expressivity in German

- 43: Pierre-Yves Modicom: Expressivity in French

- 44: Renato Miguel Basso and Luisandro Mendes de Souza: Expressivity in Brazilian Portuguese

- 45: Andrés Saab: Expressivity in Spanish

- 46: Marwan Jarrah and Sukayna Ali: Expressivity in Arabic

- 47: Nora Boneh: Expressivity in Modern Hebrew

- 48: Qiongpeng Luo: Expressivity in Chinese

- 49: Osamu Sawada: Expressivity in Japanese

- 50: Rachel Sutton-Spence and Donna Jo Napoli: Expressivity in sign languages

Über Autor(innen)

Daniel Gutzmann is Professor of German Linguistics at Ruhr University Bochum. His research explores phenomena at the interface between semantics, pragmatics, and syntax and he is a leading expert on expressives. Alongside his two OUP monographs Use-Conditional Meaning (2015) and The Grammar of Expressivity (2019) he has also (co-)authored three textbooks and co-edited several volumes, including the five-volume Wiley Blackwell Companion to Semantics (Wiley, 2021).

Katharina Turgay is Associate Professor of German Linguistics at Ruhr University Bochum. Her wide-ranging work explores syntax and morphology, pedagogical linguistics and language acquisition, and semantics and pragmatics. The main focus of her current research is the study of slurs, expressivity, and secondary meaning. Her publications include articles in a variety of journals, two monographs, a textbook, and, as co-editor with Daniel Gutzmann, Secondary Content (Brill, 2019).