Referring Expressions, Pragmatics, and Style - Reference and Beyond

List of contents

1. Reference and meaning; 2. Relevance, reference and procedures; 3. Pragmatic activation accounts of reference and referring; 4. Definite descriptions and definite procedures; 5. Pronouns and sub-personal procedures; 6. Null referring expressions; 7. Demonstratives; 8. Reference and beyond; References; Index.

About the author

Kate Scott is a Senior Lecturer at Kingston University, London. She has published widely on reference, prosody and the pragmatics of online communication and is joint editor of Relevance, Pragmatics and Interpretation (Cambridge, forthcoming).

Summary

A new analysis of how speakers and writers use referring expressions in discourse, and how hearers and readers interpret them. Using the established relevance-theoretic pragmatic framework, the book focuses on how speakers and writers achieve stylistic and poetic effects via their choice of referring expression.

Product details

• Authors: Kate Scott, Kate (Kingston University Scott, Scott Kate
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2019
• EAN: 9781107177574
• ISBN: 978-1-107-17757-4
• No. of pages: 198
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Other languages / Other literatures; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Semantics, Semantics, discourse analysis, stylistics, Semantics, discourse analysis, etc