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Default Semantics - Foundations of a Compositional Theory of Acts of Communication (Hardcover, New)
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Default Semantics - Foundations of a Compositional Theory of Acts of Communication (Hardcover, New)
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In this pioneering book Katarzyna Jaszczolt lays down the
foundations of an original theory of meaning in discourse, reveals
the cognitive foundations of discourse interpretation, and puts
forward a new basis for the analysis of discourse processing. She
provides a step-by-step introduction to the theory and its
application, and explains new terms and formalisms as required. Dr.
Jaszczolt unites the precision of truth-conditional, dynamic
approaches with insights from neo-Gricean pragmatics into the role
of speaker's intentions in communication. She shows that the
compositionality of meaning may be understood as merger
representations combining information from various sources
including word meaning and sentence structure, various kinds of
default interpretations, and conscious pragmatic inference.
Among the applications the author discusses are constructions that
pose problems in semantic analysis such as referring expressions,
propositional attitude constructions, presupposition, modality,
numerals, and sentential connectives. She proposes solutions to
cutting edge problems in the semantics/pragmatics interface - for
example, how many levels of meaning should be distinguished; the
status of underspecification; how much contextual information
should be placed in the representation of the speaker's meaning;
whether there are default interpretations; the stage of utterance
interpretation at which pragmatic inference begins; and whether
compositionality is a necessary feature of the theory of meaning
and if so how it is to be defined.
The book is for students and researchers in semantics, pragmatics,
computational linguistics, and philosophy of language at advanced
undergraduatelevel and above.
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