none 10.1075/hcp.40.09gar John Benjamins Publishing Company John Benjamins Publishing Company 1757 67886750 1419963 1419929 202507022136000054 10.1075 2025-07-02T15:35:46Z 2014-03-24T12:28:16Z 1 Cognitive Foundations of Language Structure and Use 1387-6724 10.1075/hcp https://benjamins.com/ catalog/hcp Andrea C. Schalley Griffith University, Brisbane https://ror.org/02sc3r913 A linguistic perspective There is a perceived tension between empirical and theoretical approaches to the study of language. Many recent works in the discipline emphasise that linguistics is an ‘empirical science’. This volume argues for a nuanced view, highlighting that theory and practice necessarily and as a matter of fact complement each other in linguistic research. Its contributions – ranging from experimental studies in psychology via linguistic fieldwork and cross-linguistic comparisons to the application of formal and logical approaches to language – exemplify the mutual relationship between empirical and theoretical work. The volume illustrates how selected topics are addressed by different contributions and methodological stances. Topics include the cognitive grounding of language, social cognition and the construction of meaning in interaction, and, closely related, pragmatics from a typological perspective and beyond. Anyone interested in these topics and more generally in meta-theoretical considerations will find great value in this volume. 40 12 19 2012 12 14 2012 9789027223944 9789027272454 John Benjamins Publishing Company Amsterdam 10.1075/hcp.40 http://www.jbe-platform.com/content/books/9789027272454 https://www.jbe-platform.com/deliver/fulltext/9789027272454.pdf https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1075/hcp.40/html Hans-Martin Gärtner HAS-RIL Budapest, Hungary The possibility of reporting on overheard monologic or ‘secret’ language use by means of the German quotative modal wollen shows that a ‘volitional-epistemic’ analysis of the latter is problematic. This finding allows making a further distinction between Searle’s and Zaefferer’s analyses of assertion, indicating that only the former, based solely on speaker commitment, would be able to properly approximate assertion and quotative wollen . However, embeddability of wollen under negation casts doubt on the desirability of such an approximation. Keywords: assertion; commitment; embedding; quotative evidentials; volition 12 19 2012 12 14 2012 245 256 10.1075/hcp.40.09gar https://benjamins.com/catalog/hcp.40.09gar https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1075/hcp.40.09gar/html