The Logic of Language

Informationen zum Autor Pieter Seuren is a Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics in Nijmegen. He was a lecturer in linguistics first at Cambridge, then Oxford, before moving to the Radboud University in Nijmegen in 1974 as Professor of the Philosophy of Language. Here he remained until his retirement in 1999, having in 1995 changed his appointment to Professor of Theoretical Linguistics. His books include Discourse Semantics (Blackwell 1985), Semantic Syntax (Blackwell 1996) and A View of Language (OUP 2001). Klappentext This book opens a new perspective on logic. After analyzing the functional adequacy of natural predicate logic and standard modern logic for natural linguistic interaction, the author develops a general theory of discourse-bound interpretation, covering such topics as discourse incrementation, anaphora, presupposition and topic-comment structure. Zusammenfassung This book opens a new perspective on logic. After analyzing the functional adequacy of natural predicate logic and standard modern logic for natural linguistic interaction, the author develops a general theory of discourse-bound interpretation, covering such topics as discourse incrementation, anaphora, presupposition and topic-comment structure. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1: Logic and Entailment 2: Logic: a New Beginning 3: Natural Set Theory, Cognition, and Natural Logic 4: Logical Power, Abelard, and Empirical Success Rates 5: Aristotle, the commentators and Abelard 6: The Functionality of the Square and of BNPC 7: The Context-Sensitivity of Speech and Language 8: Discourse Incrementation 9: Primary and Donkey Anaphora 10: Presupposition and Presuppositional Logic 11: Topic-Comment Modulation Bibliography Index

Product details

• Authors: Pieter A. M. Seuren, Pieter A. M. (Research Fellow Seuren, Seuren Pieter A. M.
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.12.2009
• EAN: 9780199559480
• ISBN: 978-0-19-955948-0
• No. of pages: 418
• Series: Language from Within; Language from Within
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; Philosophy of Language, PHILOSOPHY / Language, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Semantics, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Grammar & Punctuation, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Syntax, Grammar, syntax & morphology, Grammar, syntax and morphology, Semantics, discourse analysis, stylistics, Semantics, discourse analysis, etc