The Oxford handbook of reference

Author(s)

• Gundel, Jeanette K.
• Abbott, Barbara Kenyon

Bibliographic Information

The Oxford handbook of reference

edited by Jeanette Gundel and Barbara Abbott

（Oxford handbooks in linguistics）

Oxford University Press, 2019

Note

Includes bibliographical references (p. [497]-558) and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

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.

Table of Contents

1: Jeanette Gundel and Barbara Abbott: Introduction Part I: Foundations. Referential forms and their interpretation 2: Peter Hanks: Reference as a speech act 3: Michael O'Rourke: Referential intentions 4: Anne Bezuidenhout: Joint reference 5: Jeanette Gundel, Nancy Hedberg, and Ron Zacharski: Cognitive status and the form of referring expressions in discourse 6: Nancy Hedberg, Jeanette Gundel, and Kaja Borthen: Different senses of 'referential' 7: Barbara Abbott: Definiteness and familiarity 8: Barbara Abbott: The indefiniteness of definiteness 9: Klaus von Heusinger: Indefiniteness and specificity 10: Ezra Keshet and Florian Schwarz: De re / de dicto 11: Leonard Clapp, Marga Reimer, and Ann Spire: Negative existentials 12: Ryan B. Doran and Gregory Ward: A taxonomy of uses of demonstratives 13: Craige Roberts: Contextual influences on reference Part II: Implications and applications. Processing and acquisition of reference 14: Anne Salazar Orvig: Reference and referring expressions in first language acquisition 15: Elsi Kaiser and Emily Fedele: Reference resolution: A psycholinguistic perspective 16: Jorrig Vogels, Emiel Krahmer, and Alfons Maes: Accessibility and reference production: The interplay between linguistic and non-linguistic factors 17: Berit Brogaard: What can neuroscience tell us about reference? 18: Christopher Barkley and Robert Kluender: Processing anaphoric relations: An electrophysiological perspective 19: Emiel Krahmer and Kees van Deemter: Computational generation of referring expressions: An updated survey 20: Tom Williams and Matthias Scheutz: Reference in robotics: A givenness hierarchy theoretic approach 21: Kees van Deemter: Computational models of referring: Complications of information sharing References Index

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Details

• NCID: BB27786906
• ISBN:
  • 9780199687305
• LCCN: 2018943672
• Country Code: uk
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Oxford
• Pages/Volumes: xiv, 575 p.
• Size: 26 cm
• Classification:
  • DC23 : 401
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Language and languages -- Philosophy
  • LCSH : Reference sources -- Philosophy
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA80941240