The Oxford handbook of reference / edited by Jeanette Gundel and Barbara Abbott.

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Book
Language
English
Εdition
First edition.
Published/​Created
Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2019.
Description
xiv, 575 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm.

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    Oxford handbooks in linguistics [More in this series]
    Summary note
    This handbook presents an overview of the phenomenon of reference - the ability to refer to and pick out entities - which is an essential part of human language and cognition. In the volume's 21 chapters, international experts in the field offer a critical account of all aspects of reference from a range of theoretical perspectives.0Chapters in the first part of the book are concerned with basic questions related to different types of referring expression and their interpretation. They address questions about the role of the speaker - including speaker intentions - and of the addressee, as well as the role played by the semantics of the linguistic forms themselves in establishing reference. This part also explores the nature of such concepts as definite and indefinite reference and specificity, and the conditions under which reference may fail. The second part of the volume looks at implications and applications, with hapters covering such topics as the acquisition of reference by children, the processing of reference both in the human brain and by machines. 0The volume will be of interest to linguists in a wide range of subfields, including semantics, pragmatics, computational linguistics, and psycho- and neurolinguistics, as well as scholars in related fields such as philosophy and computer science.
    Bibliographic references
    Includes bibliographical references (pages 497-558) and index.
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    Reference
    ISBN
    • 9780199687305
    • 0199687307
    LCCN
    2018943672
    OCLC
    1037063921
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