Reference / Barbara Abbott.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Abbott, Barbara.

Series:

Oxford surveys in semantics and pragmatics.

Oxford surveys in semantics and pragmatics

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Reference (Linguistics).

Linguistics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (323 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book introduces the most important problems of reference and considers the solutions that have been proposed to explain them. Reference is at the centre of debate among linguists and philosophers and, as Barbara Abbott shows, this has been the case for centuries. She begins by examining the basic issue of how far reference is a two place (words-world) or a three place (speakers-words-world) relation. She then discusses the main aspects of the field and the issues associatedwith them, including those concerning proper names; direct reference and individual concepts; the difference between

Contents:

Contents; Acknowledgements; General Preface; 1 Introduction; 2 Foundations; 3 Subsequent developments; 4 The proper treatment of quantification; 5 Proper names; 6 Definite descriptions; 7 Plurals and generics; 8 Indexicality and pronouns; 9 Definiteness, strength, partitives, and referentiality; 10 NPs in discourse; 11 Taking stock; References; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-19-161351-7

0-19-920345-8

1-282-56535-4

9786612565359

0-19-154783-2

OCLC:

609859878