Description
Book SynopsisA new analysis of how speakers and writers use referring expressions in discourse, and how hearers and readers interpret them. Using the established relevance-theoretic pragmatic framework, the book focuses on how speakers and writers achieve stylistic and poetic effects via their choice of referring expression.
Trade Review'In all, Scott's first monograph is a valuable contribution to the study of reference and the first of its kind which brings together all the various and disparate literatures on a seemingly simple yet astonishingly intricate topic in the study of utterance comprehension. It should be praised in particular for its treatment of stylistic effects, which is where it contributes the most original argument.' Julia Kolkmann, Journal of Pragmatics
Table of Contents1. Reference and meaning; 2. Relevance, reference and procedures; 3. Pragmatic activation accounts of reference and referring; 4. Definite descriptions and definite procedures; 5. Pronouns and sub-personal procedures; 6. Null referring expressions; 7. Demonstratives; 8. Reference and beyond; References; Index.
