31.2032, Books: Referring Expressions, Pragmatics, and Style: Scott

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Date: Fri, 19 Jun 2020 14:46:03
From: Dan Iredale [diredale at cambridge.org]
Subject: Referring Expressions, Pragmatics, and Style: Scott

 


Title: Referring Expressions, Pragmatics, and Style 
Subtitle: Reference and Beyond 
Publication Year: 2019 
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
	   http://cambridge.org
	

Book URL: https://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/languages-linguistics/semantics-and-pragmatics/referring-expressions-pragmatics-and-style-reference-and-beyond?format=HB 


Author: Kate Scott

Electronic: ISBN:  9781316830079 Pages: 198 Price: U.S. $ 88.00
Hardback: ISBN:  9781107177574 Pages: 198 Price: U.S. $ 110.00
Hardback: ISBN:  9781107177574 Pages: 198 Price: U.K. £ 85.00


Abstract:

Reference is a major theme in the study of language and language use.
Providing a relevance-theoretic account of reference resolution, this book
develops our understanding of procedurally encoded meaning by exploring its
function and role in reference resolution. A range of referring expressions
are discussed, including definite descriptions, demonstratives and pronouns.
Existing work on the pragmatics of reference has largely focused on how
reference is resolved. However, speakers can do much more than just secure
reference when they use a referring expression. A speaker's choice of
expression might communicate information about their attitudes and their
emotions, and referring expressions can also be used to create stylistic and
poetic effects. The analyses in this book widen the focus to consider these
broader effects, and the discussions and arguments presented take seriously
the idea that referring expressions can contribute to meaning and
communication in a way that goes beyond reference.

1. Reference and meaning
2. Relevance, reference and procedures
3. Pragmatic activation accounts of reference and referring
4. Definite descriptions and definite procedures
5. Pronouns and sub-personal procedures
6. Null referring expressions
7. Demonstratives
8. Reference and beyond
References
Index.
 



Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics
                     Pragmatics
                     Semantics


Written In: English  (eng)

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