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Formal Pragmatics: Semantics, Pragmatics, Presupposition, and Focus

ISBN: 978-0-631-20121-2

February 2001

Wiley-Blackwell

444 pages

Description
Formal Pragmatics addresses issues that are on the borderline of 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.
About the Author
Nirit Kadmon is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Linguistics at Tel Aviv University. She graduated from Tel Aviv University in 1981, and went on to receive her Ph.D. from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst in 1987.
Features

  • Up-to-date text and reference book that presents how the semantics-pragmatics interface has come to be viewed today.

  • First book to give a lucid, substantial, and comprehensive picture of recent research on focus.

  • Written very clearly using non-technical language even when formal matters are discussed.