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Reference.
This book introduces the most important problems of reference and considers the solutions that have been proposed to explain them. Reference is at the centre of debate among linguists and philosophers and, as Barbara Abbott shows, this has been the case for centuries. She begins by examining the bas...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford :
OUP Oxford,
2010.
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| Colección: | Oxford Surveys in Semantics & Pragmatics, 2.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | This book introduces the most important problems of reference and considers the solutions that have been proposed to explain them. Reference is at the centre of debate among linguists and philosophers and, as Barbara Abbott shows, this has been the case for centuries. She begins by examining the basic issue of how far reference is a two place (words-world) or a three place (speakers-words-world) relation. She then discusses the main aspects of the field and the issues associatedwith them, including those concerning proper names; direct reference and individual concepts; the difference between. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (323 pages) |
| ISBN: | 9780191547836 0191547832 |