27.634, Books: Modality and Propositional Attitudes: Hegarty

[The LINGUIST List via LINGUIST]

LINGUIST List: Vol-27-634. Tue Feb 02 2016. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 27.634, Books: Modality and Propositional Attitudes: Hegarty

Moderators: linguist at linguistlist.org (Damir Cavar, Malgorzata E. Cavar)
Reviews: reviews at linguistlist.org (Anthony Aristar, Helen Aristar-Dry, Sara Couture)
Homepage: http://linguistlist.org

*****************    LINGUIST List Support    *****************
                   25 years of LINGUIST List!
Please support the LL editors and operation with a donation at:
           http://funddrive.linguistlist.org/donate/

Editor for this issue: Sara  Couture <sara at linguistlist.org>
================================================================


Date: Tue, 02 Feb 2016 16:31:25
From: Katie Laker [klaker at cambridge.org]
Subject: Modality and Propositional Attitudes: Hegarty

 


Title: Modality and Propositional Attitudes 
Publication Year: 2016 
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
	   http://cambridge.org
	

Book URL: http://bit.ly/1SrfhY8 


Author: Michael Hegarty

Hardback: ISBN:  9781107085763 Pages:  Price: U.S. $ 110.00
Hardback: ISBN:  9781107085763 Pages:  Price: U.K. £ 69.99


Abstract:

This book shows that the semantic analysis of modal notions of possibility and
necessity can be used to enhance our understanding of the interpretation of
reports of belief or emotional state. It introduces intuitive notation and
terminology to express ideas in modern theories of modal interpretation that
are normally represented in complex logical formulas, effectively updates the
1960s-era link between possible worlds and the semantics of propositional
attitude ascriptions, and reconciles two disparate views of the role of events
in semantic interpretation, that of Donald Davidson and that of David Lewis.
It reduces a host of variable behaviors of propositional attitude ascription
to an intuitive and precise distinction between ascriptions that merely
express a commitment to propositional content versus ones that attribute a
mental state to the holder of the propositional attitude. This leads to an
explanation of the nature and effects of the language disorder of fluent
aphasia.

Part I. Modality and Propositional Attitudes: 1. Epistemic modality; 2. Root
modality; 3. Bare attitude ascriptions; 4. Presupposition filtering and
bouletic ascriptions; Part II. Events and Propositional Attitudes: 5. Events
and states; 6. Full attitude ascriptions: individuating mental states through
propositional content; 7. Lower interpretation of negation; 8. Events in
epistemic and root modal interpretation; 9. Attitude ascription in child
development and Wernicke's aphasia.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Psycholinguistics
                     Semantics


Written In: English  (eng)

See this book announcement on our website: 
http://linguistlist.org/pubs/books/get-book.cfm?BookID=97654

PUBLISHING PARTNER

    Cambridge University Press
        http://us.cambridge.org

MAJOR SUPPORTING PUBLISHERS

    Akademie Verlag GmbH
        http://www.oldenbourg-verlag.de/akademie-verlag

    Bloomsbury Linguistics (formerly Continuum Linguistics)
        http://www.bloomsbury.com

    Brill
        http://www.brill.nl

    Cambridge Scholars Publishing
        http://www.c-s-p.org

    Cascadilla Press
        http://www.cascadilla.com/

    Classiques Garnier
        http://www.classiques-garnier.com/

    De Gruyter Mouton
        http://www.degruyter.com/

    Edinburgh University Press
        http://www.euppublishing.com

    Elsevier Ltd
        http://www.elsevier.com/

    Equinox Publishing Ltd
        http://www.equinoxpub.com/

    European Language Resources Association (ELRA)
        http://www.elra.info/

    Georgetown University Press
        http://www.press.georgetown.edu/

    John Benjamins
        http://www.benjamins.com/

    Lincom GmbH
        http://www.lincom-shop.eu/

    MIT Press
        http://mitpress.mit.edu/

    Multilingual Matters
        http://www.multilingual-matters.com/

    Narr Francke Attempto Verlag GmbH + Co. KG
        http://www.narr.de/

    Oxford University Press
        oup.com/us

    Palgrave Macmillan
        http://www.palgrave.com/

    Peter Lang AG
        http://www.peterlang.com/

    Rodopi
        http://www.rodopi.nl/

    Routledge (Taylor and Francis)
        http://www.routledge.com/

    Springer
        http://www.springer.com/

    University of Toronto Press
        http://www.utpjournals.com/

    Wiley-Blackwell
        http://www.wiley.com/

OTHER SUPPORTING PUBLISHERS

    Association of Editors of the Journal of Portuguese Linguistics
        http://www.fl.ul.pt/revistas/JPL/JPLweb.htm

    International Pragmatics Assoc.
        http://ipra.ua.ac.be/

    Linguistic Association of Finland
        http://www.ling.helsinki.fi/sky/

    Morgan & Claypool Publishers
        http://www.morganclaypool.com/

    Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics / Landelijke (LOT)
        http://www.lotpublications.nl/

    Seoul National University
        http://j-cs.org/index/index.php

    SIL International Publications
        http://www.sil.org/resources/publications

    Universitat Jaume I
        http://www.uji.es/CA/publ/

    University of Nebraska Press
        http://www.nebraskapress.unl.edu/

    Utrecht institute of Linguistics
        http://www-uilots.let.uu.nl/



------------------------------------------------------------------------------

*****************    LINGUIST List Support    *****************
Please support the LL editors and operation with a donation at:
            http://funddrive.linguistlist.org/donate/
 


----------------------------------------------------------
LINGUIST List: Vol-27-634	
----------------------------------------------------------