Meaning in Linguistic Interaction by Kasia M Jaszczolt

Meaning in Linguistic Interaction by Kasia M Jaszczolt

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This book builds on Kasia Jaszczolt's earlier work on Default Semantics. It draws on data from a variety of languages to show that meaning should be understood as a merger of information coming from different sources and via a variety of interacting processes.

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Meaning in Linguistic Interaction by Kasia M Jaszczolt

This book builds on Kasia Jaszczolt's earlier work on Default Semantics. It draws on data from a variety of languages to show that meaning should be understood as a merger of information coming from different sources and via a variety of interacting processes.
Kasia M. Jaszczolt is Professor of Linguistics and Philosophy of Language at the University of Cambridge and Professorial Fellow of Newnham College, Cambridge. She has published extensively on various topics in semantics, pragmatics, and philosophy of language, and in 2012 was elected a member of the Academia Europaea. Her authored books include Discourse, Beliefs and Intentions (Elsevier, 1999), Semantics and Pragmatics (Longman, 2002), Default Semantics (OUP, 2005), and Representing Time (OUP, 2009); she is also co-editor, with Keith Allan, of The Cambridge Handbook of Pragmatics (CUP, 2012), with Louis de Saussure, of Time: Language, Cognition, and Reality (OUP, 2013), and, with Minyao Huang, of Expressing the Self (OUP, 2017).
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ISBN 13 9780198832133
ISBN 10 0198832133
Title Meaning in Linguistic Interaction
Author Kasia M Jaszczolt
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Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Oxford University Press
Year published 2018-10-30
Number of pages 240
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