The Concept of Reference in the Cognitive Sciences

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

Editors

Amichai Kronfeld

Lawrence D. Roberts

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

https://doi.org/10.1075/pc.6.1-2

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

Linguistics

Cognition and language

Pragmatics

Psychology

Cognitive psychology

Main BIC Subject

CF: Linguistics

Main BISAC Subject

LAN009000: LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General