Referring expressions, pragmatics and style : reference and beyond /
"This is a book about the pragmatics of reference. When we communicate through language we inevitably talk about things. Those things might be people, places or objects, or they might be thoughts, ideas, emotions or abstract concepts. To talk about things, we need to refer to things, and this b...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge ; New York, NY :
Cambridge University Press,
2020.
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| Summary: | "This is a book about the pragmatics of reference. When we communicate through language we inevitably talk about things. Those things might be people, places or objects, or they might be thoughts, ideas, emotions or abstract concepts. To talk about things, we need to refer to things, and this book is about how we refer to things."-- |
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| Physical Description: | x, 189 pages ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781107177574 110717757X |