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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. It provides critical surveys of existing research as well as new insights and innovative perspectives.

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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. It provides critical surveys of existing research as well as new insights and innovative perspectives.
Autorenporträt
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).