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Discourse, beliefs, and intentions : semantic defaults and propositional attitude ascription / K.M. Jaszczolt.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Jaszczolt, Katarzyna
- Series:
- Current research in the semantics/pragmatics interface ; v. 2.
- Current research in the semantics/pragmatics interface ; v. 2
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Semantics.
- Ambiguity.
- Pragmatics.
- Physical Description:
- xxii, 362 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Amsterdam ; New York : Elsevier, 1999.
- Summary:
- This book is about beliefs, language, communication and cognition. It deals with the fundamental issue of the interpretation of the speaker's utterance expressing a belief and reporting on beliefs of other people in the form of oratio obliqua. The main aim of the book is to present a new account of the problem of interpreting utterances expressing beliefs and belief reports in terms of an approach called Default Semantics.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 341-356) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0080430600
- OCLC:
- 40881583
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