Referring expressions, pragmatics, and style : reference and beyond / Kate Scott.
"This is a book about the pragmatics of reference. When we communicate through language we inevitably talk about things. Those things might be people, places or objects, or they might be thoughts, ideas, emotions or abstract concepts. To talk about things, we need to refer to things, and this b...
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Table of Contents:
- Cover; Half-title page; Title page; Copyright page; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgements; 1 Reference and Meaning; 1.1 Reference and Pragmatics; 1.2 Perspectives on Reference; 1.3 Structure of the Book; 2 Relevance, Reference and Procedures; 2.1 Relevance Theory; 2.2 Referring Expressions, Pragmatic Acceptability and Relevance; 2.3 Referring and Cognition: What, If Anything, Is Resolved?; 3 Pragmatic Activation Accounts of Reference and Referring; 3.1 Activation Approaches to Reference; 3.2 Activation Accounts and Stylistic Effects; 3.3 Activation Scales and Relevance Theory
- 4 Definite Descriptions and Definite Procedures4.1 Definite Descriptions and Meaning; 4.2 Definite Descriptions, Procedures and Concepts; 4.3 The Referential-Attributive Distinction; 4.4 Definite Descriptions and Stylistic Effects; 5 Pronouns and Sub-personal Procedures; 5.1 Pronouns and Meaning; 5.2 Procedural Analyses of Pronouns; 5.3 Sub-personal Processes and Pronouns; 5.4 Pronouns and Prosody; 5.5 Pronouns and Stylistic Effects; 6 Null Referring Expressions; 6.1 Null Subjects in English; 6.2 Null Subjects and Optimal Relevance; 6.3 Null subjects and Stylistic Effects; 7 Demonstratives
- 7.1 Demonstratives and Meaning7.2 Demonstrative Procedures; 7.3 Demonstratives: Beyond Reference; 7.4 Demonstratives and Stylistic Effects; 8 Reference and Beyond; References; Index