Descriptions and Beyond

Erscheinungsjahr 2004
ISBN: 978-0-19-927051-4
Verlag: OUP Oxford

Buch, Englisch, 1 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 1107 g

PART I: INCOMPLETE DESCRIPTIONS; 1. Descriptions and Situations; 2. An Abuse of Context in Semantics: The Case of Incomplete Definite Descriptions; 3. This, That, and the Other; PART II: THE REFERENTIAL/ATTRIBUTIVE DISTINCTION; 4. Descriptions: Points of

Autoren/Hrsg.

Reimer, Marga

Bezuidenhout, Anne

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Semantik & Pragmatik
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Sprachphilosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften Sprachphilosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Part I: Incomplete Descriptions

- 1: Francois Recanati: Descriptions and Situations

- 2: Ernie Lepore: An Abuse of Context in Semantics: The Case of Incomplete Definite Descriptions

- 3: Stephen Neale: This, That, and the Other

- Part II: The Referential/Attributive Distinction

- 4: Kent Bach: Descriptions: Points of Reference

- 5: Nathan Salmon: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

- 6: Geoffrey Nunberg: Descriptive Indexicals and Indexical Descriptions

- 7: Michael Devitt: The Case for Referential Descriptions

- Part III: Presupposition and Truth-Value Gaps

- 8: Kai von Fintel: Would you Believe It? The King of France is Back! (Presuppositions and Truth-Value Intuitions)

- 9: Jay Atlas: Descriptions, Linguistic Topic/Comment and Negative Existentials

- Part IV: Representation of Definites and Indefinites in Semantic Theory

- 10: Mark Sainsbury: Referring Descriptions

- 11: Joseph Almog: The Vernacular and the Omniscient Observer of History

- 12: Peter Ludlow and Gabriel Segal: On a Unitary Analysis for Definite and Indefinite Descriptions

- Part V: Anaphoric Pronouns and Descriptions, Indefinites and Dynamic Semantics/Syntax

- 13: Richard Breheny: Indefinites and Anaphoric Independence: A Case for Dynamic Semantics and Pragmatics?

- 14: Paul Dekker: Grounding Dynamic Semantics

- 15: Craige Roberts: Pronouns as Definites

- 16: Alice ter Meulen: Anaphoric Definite Descriptions

- 17: Ruth Kempson and Wilfried Meyer-Viol: Indefinites and Scope Choice

- Part VI: Names and Descriptions

- 18: Robin Jeshion: Descriptive Descriptive Names

- 19: Marga Reimer: Descriptively Introduced Names

- References

- Index

Über Autor(innen)

Reimer, Marga (Department of Philosophy, University of Arizona) / Bezuidenhout, Anne (Department of Philosophy, University of South Carolina)