Default Semantics: Foundations of a Compositional Theory of Acts of Communication - Softcover

Jaszczolt, Katarzyna M.

 
9780199226689: Default Semantics: Foundations of a Compositional Theory of Acts of Communication
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0199226687 ISBN 13: 9780199226689
Publisher: Oxford University Press, 2007

Synopsis

Puts forward a new basis for the analysis of discourse processing

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About the Author

Kasia Jaszczolt is Professor of Linguistics and Philosophy of Language at the University of Cambridge and Fellow and Director of Studies in Linguistics at Newnham College, Cambridge. She is the author of Discourse, Beliefs, and Intentions: Semantic Defaults and Propositional Attitude Ascription (1999) and Semantics and Pragmatics: Meaning in Language and Discourse (2002), and of many articles on the semantics and pragmatics of referring expressions, propositional attitude reports, and various aspects of semantic ambiguity and underspecification. She has edited three books on contrastive semantics and pragmatics and propositional attitudes. Her Oxford DPhil was awarded in 1992 for her dissertation on the semantics of propositional attitude constructions. She is general editor of the book series Current Research in the Semantics/Pragmatics Interface.




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Publisher
Oxford University Press
Publication date
2007
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0199226687
ISBN 13 
9780199226689
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
300

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