Formal Pragmatics: Semantics, Pragmatics, Presupposition, and Focus: Semantics, Pragmatics, Preposition, and Focus - Softcover

Kadmon, Nirit

 
9780631201212: Formal Pragmatics: Semantics, Pragmatics, Presupposition, and Focus: Semantics, Pragmatics, Preposition, and Focus
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ISBN 10: 0631201211 ISBN 13: 9780631201212
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell, 2001

Synopsis

Formal Pragmatics addresses issues that are on the borderline of semantics and pragmatics of natural language, from the point of view of a model-theoretic semanticist. This up-to-date resource covers a substantial body of formal work on linguistic phenomena, and presents the way the semantics-pragmatics interface has come to be viewed today.

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About the Author

Nirit Kadmon is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Linguistics at Tel Aviv University. She graduated from Tel Aviv University in 1981, and went on to receive her Ph.D. from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst in 1987.

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Formal Pragmatics addresses issues that are on the borderline of the semantics and pragmatics of natural language, from the point of view of a model-theoretic semanticist. This up-to-date resource covers a substantial body of formal work on linguistic phenomena, and presents the way the semantics-pragmatics interface has come to be viewed today.


  • Introduces Discourse Representation Theory and File Change Semantics, with their formal representation of context and context change.
  • Covers presupposition, including the nature and status of presuppositions as well as presupposition projection.
  • Deals with focus, its prosodic manifestation, and the model-theoretic analysis of its meaning and function.
This volume, which serves as a textbook, as well as a reference or research book, offers a detailed discussion of key issues and clearly explains important, cutting-edge research.

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Formal Pragmatics addresses issues that are on the borderline of the semantics and pragmatics of natural language, from the point of view of a model-theoretic semanticist. This up-to-date resource covers a substantial body of formal work on linguistic phenomena, and presents the way the semantics-pragmatics interface has come to be viewed today.


  • Introduces Discourse Representation Theory and File Change Semantics, with their formal representation of context and context change.
  • Covers presupposition, including the nature and status of presuppositions as well as presupposition projection.
  • Deals with focus, its prosodic manifestation, and the model-theoretic analysis of its meaning and function.
This volume, which serves as a textbook, as well as a reference or research book, offers a detailed discussion of key issues and clearly explains important, cutting-edge research.

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Publisher
Wiley-Blackwell
Publication date
2001
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0631201211
ISBN 13 
9780631201212
Binding
Paperback
Edition number
1
Number of pages
443

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