Default semantics : foundations of a compositional theory of acts of communication
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書誌事項
Default semantics : foundations of a compositional theory of acts of communication
Oxford University Press, 2005
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Includes index
Series statement on dust jacket: "Oxford linguistics"
Bibliography: p. [243]-260
内容説明・目次
内容説明
In this pioneering book Kasia Jaszczolt lays down the foundations of an original theory of meaning in discourse, reveals the cognitive foundations of discourse interpretation, and puts forward a new basis for the analysis of discourse processing. She provides a step-by-step introduction to the theory and its application, and explains new terms and formalisms as required. Dr Jaszczolt unites the precision of truth-conditional, dynamic approaches with insights from
neo-Gricean pragmatics into the role of speaker's intentions in communication. She shows that the compositionality of meaning may be understood as merger representations combining information from various sources including word meaning and sentence structure, various kinds of default interpretations,
and conscious pragmatic inference.
Among the applications the author discusses are constructions that pose problems in semantic analysis such as referring expressions, propositional attitude constructions, presupposition, modality, numerals, and sentential connectives. She proposes solutions to cutting edge problems in the semantics/pragmatics interface - for example, how many levels of meaning should be distinguished; the status of underspecification; how much contextual information should be placed in the representation of the
speaker's meaning; whether there are default interpretations; the stage of utterance interpretation at which pragmatic inference begins; and whether compositionality is a necessary feature of the theory of meaning and if so how it is to be defined.
The book is for students and researchers in semantics, pragmatics, computational linguistics, and philosophy of language at advanced undergraduate level and above.
目次
- PART I FOUNDATIONS
- 1. Meaning representation: Setting the Scene
- 2. Default Meanings
- 3. Compositionality and Merger Representations
- PART II SOME APPLICATIONS
- 4. Defaults for Definite Descriptions
- 5. Default Semantics for Propositional Attitude Reports
- 6. Futurity and the English will
- 7. Default Semantics for Presupposition as Anaphora
- 8. The Myth of Sentential Connectives?
- 9. Default Semantics for Number Terms
- 10. Concluding Remarks and Future Prospects
- References
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