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Zusatztext Wide-ranging and ambitious...and well informed. Informationen zum Autor Kasia Jaszczolt is Professor of Linguistics and Philosophy of Language at the University of Cambridge and Fellow and Director of Studies in Linguistics at Newnham College. She is the author of Discourse, Beliefs, and Intentions: Semantic Defaults and Propositional Attitude Ascription (1999) and Semantics and Pragmatics: Meaning in Language and Discourse (2002), and of many articles on the semantics and pragmatics of referring expressions, propositional attitude reports, and various aspects of semantic ambiguity and underspecification. She has edited three books on contrastive semantics and pragmatics and propositional attitudes. Her Oxford DPhil was awarded in 1992 for her dissertation on the semantics of propositional attitude constructions. She is general editor of the Elsevier book series Current Research in the Semantics/Pragmatics Interface. Klappentext In this pioneering book Kasia 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. This is a book for students and researchers in semantics, pragmatics, computational linguistics, and philosophy of language at advanced undergraduate level and above. Zusammenfassung Presenting the foundations of a theory of meaning in discourse, this book offers the cognitive foundations of discourse interpretation, and puts forward a basis for the analysis of discourse processing. It provides an introduction to the theory and its application, and explains the terms and formalisms, aimed at students and researchers. Inhaltsverzeichnis Part I Foundations 1: Meaning representation: Setting the Scene 2: Default Meanings 3: Compositionality and Merger Representations Part II Some Applications 4: Defaults for Definite Descriptions 5: Default Semantics for Propositional Attitude Reports 6: Futurity and the English will 7: Default Semantics for Presupposition as Anaphora 8: The Myth of Sentential Connectives? 9: Default Semantics for Number Terms 10: Concluding Remarks and Future Prospects References ...
