George Powell

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Powell, George 2001 The referential-attributive distinction: A cognitive account Pragmatics & Cognition 9:1, pp. 69–98 | Article
In this paper my aim is to approach the referential–attributive distinction in the interpretation of definite descriptions, originally discussed by Donnellan (1966), from a cognitive perspective grounded in Sperber and Wilson’s Relevance Theory (Sperber and Wilson 1986/95). In particular, I argue… read more