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Author:   Katarzyna Jaszczolt
Publisher:   HarperCollins Publishers
Imprint:   Brassey's (UK) Ltd
Volume:   2
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 2.20cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   0.744kg
ISBN:  

9780080430607

ISBN 10:   0080430600
Pages:   365
Publication Date:   25 November 1999
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Chapter headings and selected sub-headings: Preface Introduction Semantic Ambiguities and Semantic Underspecification Ambiguous discourse? Highlights from ambiguity debates What is said Towards delimiting implicatures Semantic Defaults Intentions in communication The primary intention principle and definite descriptions The principle of the parsimony of levels Other applications Defaults in dynamic semantics Intentionality and Propositional Attitudes 'Directedness' of acts of consciousness: the phenomenological tradition Intentional relation and defaults Intentions and intentionality Are intentions in the head? Intentionality and ambiguity: concluding remarks The Default De Re Principle Propositional attitudes: a close-up Whose meaning? On sense and mode of presentation De Re, De Dicto, and De Dicto Proper Red giants and white dwarfs: context-dependence of attitude ascription Default De Re Lexicon and the Power of Referring Redefining referring expressions Proper names and modes of presentation Referring by indexicals Referent accessibility and the strength of referring Vehicles of Thought in Attitude Ascription Thoughts and acts of thought Vehicles of thought Vehicles and attitudes The core of meaning Discourse Representation Theory and Propositional Attitudes Semantics and pragmatics revisited Context Belief expressions and belief reports in DRT DRT and intentions Belief Reports in a Contrastive Perspective Belief, culture, and translation Contrastive semantics and pragmatics Context and markedness Complemetizer that in contrast Denouement: Double Occam's Razor The semantics of common sense Beyond propositional attitudes Final remarks Bibliography Index

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Dr Billy Clark, Middlesex University: Extremely interesting and original...the majority of researchers interested in this topic are explicitly aware of the fact that it crosses the boundary between (linguistics and philosophy). This book clearly crosses that boundary and seems to have a broader scope than most works in this area. Alessandro Tavano, University of Trieste, Linguist List: ... represents an attempt at bridging the gap between actual uses of utterances in communication, which seem intuitively governed by default rules, and theoretical descriptions, which require an explicit model to fit non homogeneous data. This book makes it clear that Default Semantics represents an interesting attempt to propose a unified theory of utterance meaning. Frank Brisard, Pragmatics: ...of interest to linguists, philosophers of language (and of mind), social anthropologists, and cognitive scientists. Alessandro Capone, Pragmatics and Cognition, volume nine, number two: I believe that this is an extremely coherent and well argued book. I am persuaded that the reader will find it rich in ideas and very instructive. I am also sure it will bear fruit in due time and have some very important ramifications...I want to recomend this book wholeheartedly.

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