30.1553, Books: The Oxford Handbook of Reference: Gundel, Abbott (eds.)

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Date: Mon, 08 Apr 2019 22:51:22
From: Alyssa Russell [Alyssa.Russell at oup.com]
Subject: The Oxford Handbook of Reference: Gundel, Abbott (eds.)

 


Title: The Oxford Handbook of Reference 
Publication Year: 2018 
Publisher: Oxford University Press
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Book URL: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-oxford-handbook-of-reference-9780199687305 


Editor: Jeanette Gundel
Editor: Barbara Abbott

Hardback: ISBN:  9780199687305 Pages: 592 Price: U.S. $ 150.00


Abstract:

This handbook presents an overview of the phenomenon of reference - the
ability to refer to and pick out entities - which is an essential part of
human language and cognition. In the volume's 21 chapters, international
experts in the field offer a critical account of all aspects of reference from
a range of theoretical perspectives.

Chapters in the first part of the book are concerned with basic questions
related to different types of referring expression and their interpretation.
They address questions about the role of the speaker - including speaker
intentions - and of the addressee, as well as the role played by the semantics
of the linguistic forms themselves in establishing reference. This part also
explores the nature of such concepts as definite and indefinite reference and
specificity, and the conditions under which reference may fail. The second
part of the volume looks at implications and applications, with chapters
covering such topics as the acquisition of reference by children, the
processing of reference both in the human brain and by machines. 

The volume will be of interest to linguists in a wide range of subfields,
including semantics, pragmatics, computational linguistics, and psycho- and
neurolinguistics, as well as scholars in related fields such as philosophy and
computer science.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics
                     Language Acquisition
                     Pragmatics
                     Semantics


Written In: English  (eng)

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