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  • Semantics
  • Pragmatics

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  • John Pott's work unified appositives, parentheticals, expressives, and honorifics as 'Not-At-Issue' (NAI) content.
  • NAI content shares semantic properties with root structures, expressing speaker commitments independently of the main utterance.
  • Potts treated NAI content as a natural semantic class.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To propose and experimentally confirm that Not-At-Issue (NAI) content constitutes a complete speech act separate from the main utterance.
  • To validate Potts' observations regarding the semantic behavior of NAI content.

Main Methods:

  • Experimental investigation of semantic and pragmatic properties of NAI content.
  • Testing the hypothesis that NAI content performs a distinct speech act.
  • Analyzing comprehension of discourse coherence relations for NAI content versus at-issue content.

Main Results:

  • Experimental confirmation that speech act adverbs are acceptable as NAI content, supporting the speech act hypothesis.
  • Demonstration that NAI speech acts do not require restrictive discourse coherence relations with the containing utterance, unlike successive main speech acts.
  • Findings indicate that judgments of syntactic complexity and truth evaluations are influenced by the at-issue status of content.

Conclusions:

  • The speech act hypothesis provides a robust explanation for the semantic and pragmatic properties of NAI content.
  • NAI content functions as an independent speech act, explaining its unique behavior in discourse.
  • The distinction between NAI and at-issue content impacts how utterances are processed and evaluated.