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Author : Rachel Anne Georgette Mueller
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Anaphora (Linguistics)
ISBN : UCSC:32106008239953
Author : I. Noveck,D. Sperber
Publisher : Springer
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2004-10-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780230524125
How do we understand what we are told, resolve ambiguities, appreciate metaphor and irony, and grasp both explicit and implicit content in verbal communication? This book provides the first comprehensive introduction to an exciting new field in which models of language and meaning are tested and compared using techniques from psycholinguistics.
Author : Betty J. Birner
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2012-06-21
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781118348307
Introduction to Pragmatics guides students through traditional and new approaches in the field, focusing particularly on phenomena at the elusive semantics/pragmatics boundary to explore the role of context in linguistic communication. Offers students an accessible introduction and an up-to-date survey of the field, encompassing both established and new approaches to pragmatics Addresses the traditional range of topics – such as implicature, reference, presupposition, and speech acts – as well as newer areas of research, including neo-Gricean theories, Relevance Theory, information structure, inference, and dynamic approaches to meaning Explores the relationship and boundaries between semantics and pragmatics Ideal for students coming to pragmatics for the first time
Author : Nicholas Asher
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789401117159
Reference to Abstract Objects in Discourse presents a novel framework and analysis of the ways we refer to abstract objects in natural language discourse. The book begins with a typology of abstract objects and related entities like eventualities. After an introduction to `bottom up, compositional' discourse representation theory (DRT) and to previous work on abstract objects in DRT (notably work on the semantics of the attitudes), the book turns to a semantic analysis of eventuality and abstract object denoting nominals in English. The book then substantially revises and extends the dynamic semantic framework of DRT to develop an analysis of anaphoric reference to abstract objects and eventualities that exploits discourse structure and the discourse relations that obtain between elements of the structure. A dynamic, semantically based theory of discourse structure (SDRT) is proposed, along with many illustrative examples. Two further chapters then provide the analysis of anaphoric reference to propositions VP ellipsis. The abstract entity anaphoric antecedents are elements of the discourse structures that SDRT develops. The final chapter discusses some logical and philosophical difficulties for a semantic analysis of reference to abstract objects. For semanticists, philosophers of language, computer scientists interested in natural language applications and discourse, philosophical logicians, graduate students in linguistics, philosophy, cognitive science and artificial intelligence.
Author : Kiyoshi Ishikawa
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Reference (Linguistics).
ISBN : UOM:39015043124968
Author : Marga Reimer,Anne Bezuidenhout
Publisher : Clarendon Press
Page : 676 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 019927052X
In 1905, Bertrand Russell published 'On Denoting' in which he proposed and defended a quantificational account of definite descriptions. Forty-five years later, in 'On Referring', Peter Strawson claimed that Russell was mistaken: definite descriptions do not function as quantifiers but (paradigmatically) as referring expressions. Ever since, scores of theorists have attempted to adjudicate this debate. Others have gone beyond the question of the proper analysis of definite descriptions, focusing instead on the complex relations between definites, indefinites, and pronouns. These relations are often examined with attention to the phenomena of scope and anaphora. This collection assembles nineteen new papers on definite descriptions and related topics. The contributors include both philosophers and linguists, many of whom have been active participants in the various debates concerning descriptions. The volume contains a brief general introduction and is divided into six sections, each of which is accompanied by a detailed introduction of its own. Several of the sections concern issues associated with the Russell/Strawson debate. These include the sections on incomplete descriptions, the referential/attributive distinction, and presupposition and truth value gaps. There is also a section on the representation of definites and indefinites in semantic theory, containing papers that reject certain core assumptions of the Russellian paradigm. Linguists interested in definites have traditionally been concerned with how such expressions interact with other expressions, including pronouns and indefinites. They have explored, and continue to explore, these interactions through the complex phenomena of scope and anaphora. In the section dealing with anaphoric pronouns and descriptions, indefinites and dynamic syntax/semantics, five linguists propose and defend their views on these and related issues. Finally, there is a section that concerns the relation between proper names and descriptions and, more particularly, the idea that some names, those introduced into the language by description, are semantically equivalent to definite descriptions.
Author : Yan Huang
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2014-11-27
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780192518385
Yan Huang's highly successful textbook on pragmatics - the study of language in use - has been fully revised and updated in this second edition. It includes a brand new chapter on reference, a major topic in both linguistics and the philosophy of language. Chapters have also been updated to include new material on upward and downward entailment, current debates about conversational implicature, impoliteness, emotional deixis, contextualism versus semantic minimalism, and the elimination of binding conditions. The book draws on data from English and a wide range of the world's languages, and shows how pragmatics is related to the study of semantics, syntax, and sociolinguistics and to such fields as the philosophy of language, linguistic anthropology, and artificial intelligence. Professor Huang includes exercises and essay topics at the end of each chapter, and offers guidance and suggested solutions at the end of the volume. Written by one of the leading scholars in the field, this new edition will continue to be an ideal textbook for students of linguistics, and a valuable resource for scholars and students of language in philosophy, psychology, anthropology, and computer science.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 550 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1989-06
Category : Dissertations, Academic
ISBN : UVA:X030759331
Author : Monika Schwarz-Friesel,Manfred Consten,Mareile Knees
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2007-05-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027292582
This volume contains a careful selection of papers concerned with actual research questions on anaphoric reference, a subject of current interest with various linguistic subdisciplines. This is reflected in this book as it methodically covers broadly invested approaches from cognitive, neurolinguistic, formal and computational perspectives, each contribution representing the respective ‘state of the art’ on a high theoretical and empirical level. The volume contains three thematic parts: Anaphors in Cognitive, Text- and Discourse Linguistics; The Syntax and Semantics of Anaphors; and Neurolinguistic Studies on the reception of anaphoric reference. The contributions investigate several Indo-European languages.
Author : Ralph Grishman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1986-11-06
Category : Computers
ISBN : 0521310385
A highly respected introduction to the computer analysis of language. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.
Author : Paul Elbourne
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2013-06-27
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780199660193
Paul Elbourne defends the Fregean view that definite descriptions ('the table', 'the King of France') refer to individuals, and offers a new and radical account of the semantics of pronouns. He draws on a wide range of work, from Frege, Peano, and Russell to the latest findings in linguistics, philosophy of language, and psycholinguistics.
Author : Victoria Escandell-Vidal,Manuel Leonetti,Aoife Ahern
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 459 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2011-07-25
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780857240941
Although the notion of procedural meaning is found in areas such as discourse markers, reference, tense, modality and intonation, until now there has been no single volume entirely devoted to it. Over 25 years, since the initial proposal by Blakemore, a number of refinements have been suggested, yet some criticisms have also been raised. The role and status of the conceptual / procedural distinction within a theory of human communication and the nature of procedural encoding were in need of reassessment in the light of current research in linguistic theory, cognitive science, experimental pragmatics and language acquisition. The papers collected here serve this general purpose from different standpoints. Some of them consider the topic from the angle of its theoretical foundations and put forth original proposals aimed at clarifying the most controversial issues. Others take a more data-driven orientation and offer novel analyses illustrating how encoded instructions work and how much can be gained from approaching certain linguistic phenomena in procedural terms. The contributions in this volume represent an inflection point in the delimitation and understanding of the notion of procedural meaning and open new paths for future research.
Author : Bonnie Lynn Webber
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2016-11-18
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781315403328
First published in 1979, this book starts from the perspective that dealing with anaphoric language can be decomposed into two complementary tasks: 1. identifying what a text potentially makes available for anaphoric reference and 2. constraining the candidate set of a given anaphoric expression down to one possible choice. The author argues there is an intimate connection between formal sentential analysis and the synthesis of an appropriate conceptual model of the discourse. Some of the issues with the creation of this conceptual model are discussed in the second chapter, which follows a background to the thesis that catalogues the types of anaphoric expression available in English and lists the types of things that can be referred to anaphorically. The third and fourth chapters examine two types of anaphoric expression that do not refer to non-linguistic entities. The final chapter details three areas into which this research could potentially be extended. This book will be of interest to students of linguistics.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 672 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Computational linguistics
ISBN : UOM:39015047898922
Author : Hiyan Alshawi
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Computational linguistics
ISBN : 0262011263
