The Concept of Reference in the Cognitive Sciences

Special issue of Pragmatics & Cognition 6:1/2 (1998)

An interdisciplinary look at the concept of reference, using perspectives from the philosophy of language and mind, logic and formal semantics, to developmental psychology and cognitive science.
[Pragmatics & Cognition, 6:1/2] 1998.  vii, 364 pp.
Publishing status: Available
Published online on 20 July 2012
Table of Contents
Call for Papers
vii–viii
Introduction
Amichai Kronfeld and Lawrence D. Roberts
1–7
ARTICLES
The pragmatic fallacies of the New Theory of Reference
Jaakko Hintikka
9–20
Quantity implicatures in reference understanding
Jeanette K. Gundel and Ann E. Mulkern
21–45
Pragmatic criteria for reference assignment: A Relevance-theoretic account of the acceptability of bridging
Tomoko Matsui
47–97
What are referring expressions? How do we recognize them?
Stig W. Jørgensen
99–120
Object reference in a shared domain of conversation
Robbert-Jan Beun and Anita H.M. Cremers
121–152
Interactive aspects of reference assignment in conversations
Sara W. Smith and Andreas H. Jucker
153–187
Reference and definite referring expressions
Richard Epstein
189–207
Routes to reference
Jerome S. Bruner
209–227
Reference: Intending that others jointly attend
Michael Tomasello
229–243
Reference: Grammaticalizing joint attention
Clemens Knobloch
245–264
Children's use of contextual cues to resolve referential ambiguity: An application of Relevance Theory
Anne Bezuidenhout and Mary Sue Sroda
265–299
Symbols and icons in diagrammatic representation
August Fenk
301–334
BOOK REVIEWS
Review of Fretheim & Gundel (1996): Reference and Referent Accessibility
Kent Bach
335–338
Review of Kronfeld (1990): Reference and Computation: An Essay in Applied Philosophy of Language
Rod Bertolet
339–348
Review of Roberts (1993): How Reference Works: Explanatory Models for Indexicals, Descriptions and Opacity
Michael J. Wreen
349–357
Authors in this Issue
359–362
Announcement: PRAGMA 99
363–364
Subjects

Main BIC Subject

CF: Linguistics

Main BISAC Subject

LAN009000: LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General