Referring Expressions, Pragmatics, and Style
Reference and Beyond
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- Author: Kate Scott, Kingston University, London
- Date Published: November 2019
- availability: In stock
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9781107177574
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Reference is a major theme in the study of language and language use. Providing a relevance-theoretic account of reference resolution, this book develops our understanding of procedurally encoded meaning by exploring its function and role in reference resolution. A range of referring expressions are discussed, including definite descriptions, demonstratives and pronouns. Existing work on the pragmatics of reference has largely focused on how reference is resolved. However, speakers can do much more than just secure reference when they use a referring expression. A speaker's choice of expression might communicate information about their attitudes and their emotions, and referring expressions can also be used to create stylistic and poetic effects. The analyses in this book widen the focus to consider these broader effects, and the discussions and arguments presented take seriously the idea that referring expressions can contribute to meaning and communication in a way that goes beyond reference.
Read more- Clear examples and analyses provide an accessible approach to readers who may be unfamiliar with the relevance-theoretic pragmatic framework
- Provides those working in stylistics and discourse analysis with a pragmatic account of reference, applying the ideas to literary examples throughout
- Forges links between different linguistics sub-disciplines, encouraging cross-disciplinary work and collaboration
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'In all, Scott's first monograph is a valuable contribution to the study of reference and the first of its kind which brings together all the various and disparate literatures on a seemingly simple yet astonishingly intricate topic in the study of utterance comprehension. It should be praised in particular for its treatment of stylistic effects, which is where it contributes the most original argument.' Julia Kolkmann, Journal of Pragmatics
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- Date Published: November 2019
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9781107177574
- length: 198 pages
- dimensions: 235 x 156 x 15 mm
- weight: 0.4kg
- availability: In stock
Table 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
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