LINGUIST List 13.1433

Wed May 22 2002

Books: Formal Pragmatics, N. Kadmon

Editor for this issue: Dina Kapetangianni <dinalinguistlist.org>

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1. tmac, Formal Pragmatics: Semantics, Pragmatics, Presupposition, and Focus by Nirit Kadmon

Title: Formal Pragmatics
Subtitle: Semantics, Pragmatics, Presupposition, and Focus
			
Publication Year: 2001
			
Publisher: Blackwell Publishers 
 http://www.blackwellpublishers.co.uk/
			
Book URL: http://www.blackwellpub.com/asp/book.asp?ref=0631201203
			
 
Author: Nirit Kadmon 
				

Hardback: ISBN: 0631201203, Pages: 448, Price: 78.95
Comment: 30% off with a subscription to Blackwell's LL+
Paperback: ISBN: 0631201211, Pages: 448, Price: 41.95
Comment: 30% off with a subscription to Blackwell's LL+
			
Abstract:

Formal Pragmatics addresses issues that are on the borderline of the
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 the semantics-pragmatics interface has come to be viewed
today.

-Introduces Discourse Representation Theory and File Change Semantics,
with their formal representation of context and context change.

-Covers presupposition, including the nature and status of
presuppositions as well as presupposition projection.

-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.

Lingfield(s):Discourse Analysis, Pragmatics
			 
Subject Language(s): English (Language code: ENG)
 
Written In: English (Language Code: ENG)