Discourse Time is Real
Katja Jasinskaja
August 2024 

What is discourse/utterance time? And what characteristics of utterance time are relevant for the interpretation of utterances? In this talk, I use temporal iconicity in live report and narrative, and the resulting similarity between the domain of event times and the domain of utterance times as a way to investigate the notion of utterance time more closely. I present experimental evidence that not only temporal order, but also the duration of events can be reflected iconically by utterance times.

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Reference:	lingbuzz/008461 (please use that when you cite this article)
Published in:	Talk presented at the Workshop Incremental constructions within and across languages at the 35th European Summer School in Logic, Language, and Information, ESSLLI 2024. Leuven, Belgium.
keywords:	narrative, live report, iconicity, event time, utterance time, tense, aspect, incrementality, event duration, experimental pragmatics, semantics
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