In:Introduction to Cognitive Pragmatics
Klaus-Uwe Panther
[Cognitive Linguistics in Practice 4] 2022
► pp. xiii–xiv
Abbreviations and symbols
Published online: 16 March 2022
https://doi.org/10.1075/clip.4.abbr
https://doi.org/10.1075/clip.4.abbr
Lexicogrammatical & semantic-pragmatic labels
A, ACT
Action
ADJ
Adjective
ASS
Assertive illocutionary type
AUX
Auxiliary verb
CL
Clause
COND-CL
Conditional clause (protasis)
COM
Commissive illocutionary type
DAT
Dative
DECL
Declaration (illocutionary type)
DIR
Directive illocutionary type
EXPR
Expressive illocutionary type
F
Illocutionary force
FIN
Finite
GCI
Generalized conversational implicature
H
Hearer
INF
Infinitive
ING
Present participle or gerund morpheme
N
Noun
NEG
Negation
NP
Noun phrase
OBJ
Grammatical object
P
Preposition
p
Proposition or propositional content
PCI
Particularized conversational implicature
PTCP
Participle
PRED
Predicate
PRES
Present tense
PRF
Perfect
REFL
Reflexive morpheme
SBJ
Grammatical subject
S
Speaker
SUBJ
Subjunctive
s.v.
Latin sub voce ‘under the heading’
V
Verb
VP
Verb phrase
Varieties of English
GB
Great Britain (British English)
US
United States (American English)
Symbols and notational conventions
⊩
Entailment
+>
Generalized conversational implicature (GCI)
++>
Particularized conversational implicature (PCI)
⊃
Material implication
→
Metonymic inference
⇒
Metaphorical mapping
>
Relation of motivation
~>
Presupposition
*
Grammatically unacceptable
?
Questionable acceptability
#
Conceptually and/or pragmatically unacceptable
‘…’
Informal description of the meaning of a word or expression; e.g. bachelor ‘unmarried
man’
small caps
Grammatical, semantic, and functional categories
∀
Universal quantifier ‘all’
∃
Existential quantifier ‘some’
x, y, etc.
Variables (bound or free)
