Default Semantics: Foundations of a Compositional Theory of Acts of Communication

Katarzyna M. Jaszczolt, K. M. Jaszczolt

ISBN 10: 0199226687 / ISBN 13: 9780199226689

Published by Oxford University Press 2007-08-23, 2007

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Default Semantics: Foundations of a Compositional Theory of Acts of Communication
• Publisher: Oxford University Press 2007-08-23
• Publication Date: 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0199226687
• ISBN 13: 9780199226689
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

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.

About the Author

Katarzyna Jaszczolt is Senior Lecturer in Semantics and Pragmatics 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.