Full Description
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.
Chapters 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 chapters covering such topics as the acquisition of reference by children, the processing of reference both in the human brain and by machines.
The 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.
Contents
1: Jeanette Gundel and Barbara Abbott: Introduction
Part I: Foundations. Referential forms and their interpretation
2: Peter Hanks: Reference as a speech act
3: Michael O'Rourke: Referential intentions
4: Anne Bezuidenhout: Joint reference
5: Jeanette Gundel, Nancy Hedberg, and Ron Zacharski: Cognitive status and the form of referring expressions in discourse
6: Nancy Hedberg, Jeanette Gundel, and Kaja Borthen: Different senses of 'referential'
7: Barbara Abbott: Definiteness and familiarity
8: Barbara Abbott: The indefiniteness of definiteness
9: Klaus von Heusinger: Indefiniteness and specificity
10: Ezra Keshet and Florian Schwarz: De re / de dicto
11: Leonard Clapp, Marga Reimer, and Ann Spire: Negative existentials
12: Ryan B. Doran and Gregory Ward: A taxonomy of uses of demonstratives
13: Craige Roberts: Contextual influences on reference
Part II: Implications and applications. Processing and acquisition of reference
14: Anne Salazar Orvig: Reference and referring expressions in first language acquisition
15: Elsi Kaiser and Emily Fedele: Reference resolution: A psycholinguistic perspective
16: Jorrig Vogels, Emiel Krahmer, and Alfons Maes: Accessibility and reference production: The interplay between linguistic and non-linguistic factors
17: Berit Brogaard: What can neuroscience tell us about reference?
18: Christopher Barkley and Robert Kluender: Processing anaphoric relations: An electrophysiological perspective
19: Emiel Krahmer and Kees van Deemter: Computational generation of referring expressions: An updated survey
20: Tom Williams and Matthias Scheutz: Reference in robotics: A givenness hierarchy theoretic approach
21: Kees van Deemter: Computational models of referring: Complications of information sharing
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