Formal Pragmatics: Semantics, Pragmatics, Presupposition, and Focus
- Binding: Paperback
- Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
- Publish date: 02/01/2001
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Formal Pragmatics addresses issues that are on the borderline of semantics and pragmatics of natural language, from the point of view of a model-theoretic semanticist. This up-to-date resource covers a substantial body of formal work on linguistic phenomena, and presents the way that the semantics-pragmatics interface has come to be viewed today.
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The book introduces discourse representation theory and file change semantics, with their formal representation of context and context change. It also covers presuppositions, including their nature and status as well as presupposition projection. Finally, the author deals with focus, its prosodic manifestation, and the model-theoretic analysis of its meaning and function. This volume, which serves as a textbook as well as a reference or research book, offers a detailed discussion of key issues and clearly explains important, cutting-edge research.
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