The Oxford Handbook of Reference

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. Chapters offer a critical account of all aspects of reference, from the different types of referring expression to the processing of reference in the brain.

Auteur
Jeanette Gundel is Professor of Linguistics at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, where she has been teaching since 1980. She is also Associate Director of the Center for Cognitive Science and an affiliate member of the Department of Philosophy. Her research focuses primarily on the interface between linguistic theory and pragmatics, especially reference and information structure. Barbara Abbott is an Emeritus Professor of Linguistics and Philosophy at Michigan State University, where she taught from 1976 to 2006. Her main research interests are in semantics, pragmatics, and philosophy of language. She has published multiple journal articles on topics ranging from reference and noun phrase interpretation to conditional sentences, and is the author of Reference (OUP 2010).

Contenu

• 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

• References

• Index