Actual Minds, Possible Worlds (The Jerusalem-Harvard Lectures) by Jerome S. BRUNER

Author:Jerome S. BRUNER
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Published: 2009-07-28T16:05:00+00:00

Note that each variant also imposes stress on the word that carries the burden of uncertainty-john, marry, and Elsie in the three variants.

Fillmore, for his part, raises the question of whether grammar is principally a device that permits speakers to set forth their "perspective on a scene." It is a more elaborated version of the "stance marking" of Feldman, and he makes the more ambitious claim that one of the major functions of grammar in general (rather than a subset of stance operators) is to accomplish this setting of perspective. As illustration, he notes the function of passive and active sentences in signaling the attentional perspective of the speaker, as in:

The Ming vase was overturned by the cat.

The cat overturned the Ming vase.

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