A Presuppositional Analysis of Specific Indefinites

Common Grounds as Structured Information States

Jae-Il Yeom (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

258 Seiten

2016
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-138-97930-7 (ISBN)

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First published in 1998. In this book the author presents the view that although many linguists have been interested in specific indefinites, their theories are not quite satisfactory in that they have only tried to explore some aspects of specific indefinites. This paper assumes a standard notion of specificity, i.e., the notion of someone having-in-mind an individual or a relation. Under this assumption, there is an attempt to review previous studies on specific indefinites, and propose a new theory of specificity which I believe can capture all aspects which the previous studies have explored. This leads us to a new information theory which is partially representational and partially denotational., and which is useful for dealing with conversational aspects, like the distinction between the speaker and the audience.

Authored by Jae-ll Yeom.

Chapter 1 Introduction; Chapter 2 Review of Previous Studies; Chapter 3 An Ambiguity View of Specificity; Chapter 4 The Semantics of Cognitive Contact in Information Theory; Chapter 5 Presupposition Projection and Scope of Specific Indefinites;

Erscheinungsdatum	03.03.2016
Reihe/Serie	Outstanding Dissertations in Linguistics
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	129 x 198 mm
Gewicht	453 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
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ISBN-10	1-138-97930-9 / 1138979309
ISBN-13	978-1-138-97930-7 / 9781138979307
Zustand	Neuware