Reference And Referent Accessibility
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Author | : Thorstein Fretheim |
Publisher | : John Benjamins Publishing |
Total Pages | : 314 |
Release | : 1996-01-01 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9027250502 |
The papers in this volume are concerned with the question of how a speaker's intended referent is interpreted by the addressee. Topics include the interpretation of coreferential vs. disjoint reference, the role of intonation, syntactic form and animacy in reference understanding, and the way in which general principles of utterance interpretation constrain possible interpretations of referring expressions. The collection arises from a workshop on reference and referent accessibility which was held at the 4th International Pragmatics Conference in Kobe, Japan, July 25-30, 1993.
Author | : Richard Mark Sainsbury |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 280 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 0199241805 |
Reference is a central topic in philosophy of language. This book sets out a new approach to the concept, which promises to bring to an end some long-standing debates in semantic theory. It also includes an historical survey. It will be of interest to those working in logic, mind, and metaphysics.
Author | : Jeanette K. Gundel |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2019 |
Genre | : Language and languages |
ISBN | : 9780191869075 |
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. Chapters offer a critical account of all aspects of reference, from the different types of referring expression to the processing of reference in the brain.
Author | : Kate Scott |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 201 |
Release | : 2019-11-07 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 110717757X |
A relevance-theoretic account of reference, with a focus on its role in creating stylistic, attitudinal and emotional effects.
Author | : Ted J.M. Sanders |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 113 |
Release | : 2018-12-07 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 1135482659 |
This special issue shows how accessibility phenomena need to be studied from a linguistic and psycholinguistic angle, and in the latter case from interpretation, as well as production. The contributions augment the growing knowledge of accessibility in text and discourse processing. They also illuminate how accessibility is marked in a text or a discourse, how readers and listeners respond to those markings, and how mental representations evolve and change as a direct result of accessibility. The editors hope is that the text affects the readers' representations in ways that linguists and psycholinguists theorize as beneficial.
Author | : Elsi Kaiser |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 248 |
Release | : 2003 |
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Author | : Mario Gómez-Torrente |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 244 |
Release | : 2019-11-28 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 019258524X |
How is it that words come to stand for the things they stand for? Is the thing that a word stands for - its reference - fully identified or described by conventions known to the users of the word? Or is there a more roundabout relation between the reference of a word and the conventions that determine or fix it? Do words like 'water', 'three', and 'red' refer to appropriate things, just as the word 'Aristotle' refers to Aristotle? If so, which things are these, and how do they come to be referred to by those words? In Roads to Reference, Mario Gómez-Torrente provides novel answers to these and other questions that have been of traditional interest in the theory of reference. The book introduces a number of cases of apparent indeterminacy of reference for proper names, demonstratives, and natural kind terms, which suggest that reference-fixing conventions for them adopt the form of lists of merely sufficient conditions for reference and reference failure. He then provides arguments for a new anti-descriptivist picture of those kinds of words, according to which the reference-fixing conventions for them do not describe their reference. This book also defends realist and objectivist accounts of the reference of ordinary natural kind nouns, numerals, and adjectives for sensible qualities. According to these accounts these words refer, respectively, to 'ordinary kinds', cardinality properties, and properties of membership in intervals of sensible dimensions, and these things are fixed in subtle ways by associated reference-fixing conventions.
Author | : Axel Holvoet |
Publisher | : John Benjamins Publishing Company |
Total Pages | : 570 |
Release | : 2016-01-21 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9027267537 |
The third volume in the VARGReB series explores different aspects of varying argument realization in Baltic. It presents original studies on differential marking of both core and non-core verbal arguments, on argument structures of nouns and the encoding of nominal arguments, as well as on constructions reflecting the expansion of argument structure through the addition of causative, resultative or applicative predications. The discussion of phenomena of argument realization and marking often touches on fundamental problems of syntax and the syntax-semantics interface, such as the putative locality of case assignment, event-structural factors determining case marking, the inheritance of argument structure across phrase types, or the status of arguments and adjuncts. The contributions to this volume use different approaches and frameworks to analyze a wealth of authentic data from contemporary Latvian and Lithuanian.
Author | : Mira Ariel |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 277 |
Release | : 2014-02-03 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 1317933834 |
Accessing Noun-Phrase Antecedents offers a radical shift in the analysis of discourse anaphora, from a purely pragmatic account to a cognitive account, in terms of processing procedures. Mira Ariel defines referring expressions as markers signalling the degree of Accessibility in memory of the antecedent. The notion of Accessibility is explicitly defined, the crucial factors being the Salience of the antecedent, and the Unity between the antecedent and the anaphor. This analysis yields an astonishing array of new results. The precise distribution of referring expressions in actual discourse is directly predicted. Several universals of anaphoric relations are stated. Thus, although not all languages necessarily have the same markers, and nor do they assign them precisely the same function, Ariel shows that they all obey the same Accessibility marking hierarchy. This book will be compulsory reading for anyone with an interest in the semantics and pragmatics of referring expressions, in the interaction of semantics and pragmatics, and more generally in the interaction between peripheral and central cognitive systems.
Author | : Various |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 15061 |
Release | : 2021-12-02 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 1136158324 |
Routledge Library Editions: Linguistics brings together as one set, mini-sets, or individual volumes, a series of previously out-of-print classics from a variety of academic imprints. With titles ranging from Applied Linguistics and Language Learning to Experimental Psycholinguistics and Sociolinguistics Today: International Perspectives, this set provides in one place a wealth of important reference sources from a wide range of authors expert in the field.