LINGUIST List 22.360 Thu Jan 20 2011 Disc: Review of 'Reference' Editor for this issue: Elyssa Winzeler <elyssalinguistlist.org> To post to LINGUIST, use our convenient web form at http://linguistlist.org/LL/posttolinguist.cfm. Directory         1.     Barbara Abbott , Review of 'Reference' Message 1: Review of 'Reference' Date: 16-Jan-2011 From: Barbara Abbott <abbottbmsu.edu> Subject: Review of 'Reference' E-mail this message to a friend Read Review: http://linguistlist.org/issues/22/22-267.html I’d like to thank Maria Averintseva-Klisch for her review of my 2010 book Reference. Her main negative comments were that my book was too narrowly semantic in focus and did not give work on the pragmatics of reference sufficient attention. In my defense I would just like to make a couple of comments. The first is clarificatory: in discussing my criticisms of Kent Bach in the last chapter of the book, she suggests that I would like to “reduce the pragmatic concept of reference to a criterion for the definition of semantic reference”. But I do not have any such desire. Indeed, I described *Bach* as making consistency in pragmatic reference the criterion for semantic reference (as Averintseva-Klisch acknowledges), but that was a view I was criticizing, and not my own. My second comment is that I wrote the book believing that the title was going to be Reference and Noun Phrase Interpretation, which was the title I had submitted my proposal under. However it emerged, a month or so before I submitted the completed manuscript, that the publishers were assuming the title was simply Reference (despite what my contract said), and that they preferred the shorter title. I probably should have insisted on the longer title, which would have given a better indication of the contents. Linguistic Field(s): Philosophy of Language                             Pragmatics                             Semantics Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue Page Updated: 20-Jan-2011       About LINGUIST    |   Contact Us       While the LINGUIST List makes every effort to ensure the linguistic relevance of sites listed on its pages, it cannot vouch for their contents.