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Giles fauconnier: Mental Spaces.

Cambridge University Press 1994

This is a very original approach to the ways in which we connect words to referents, emphasizing the assumption of shared know­ledge and the role of pragmatic connections.

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talmy givon: Mind, Code and Context: Essays in Pragmatics. Lawrence Erlbaum 1989

This collection of essays covers many topics in pragmatics, including reference (Chapters 5 and 6), from a perspective that emphasizes function (what language is used for).

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JOHN LYONS: Semantics. Volume 1.

Cambridge University Press 1977

Chapter 7, on reference, sense, and denotation, presents a com­prehensive background to the basic issues in the traditional semantic treatment of how words are used to refer.

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Geoffrey nunberg: The Pragmatics of Reference.

Indiana University Linguistics Club 1977

This dissertation uses the idea that words can be shown to have endless possible referents to argue for a pragmatic analysis in which word-meanings cannot be separated from 'knowledge of other kinds of conventions and social practices'.

Chapter 4

Presupposition and entailment

noel burton-roberts: The Limits to Debate. A Revised Theory of Semantic Presupposition. Cambridge University Press 1989

This book represents one of the few recent attempts to reconsider the basic concepts involved in presupposition.

choon-kyu oh and david dineen (eds.): Syntax and Semantics Volume n: Presupposition. Academic Press 1979

This collection of sixteen papers, plus an extensive bibliography, illustrates the types of controversies surrounding the nature of presupposition. Many are presented in very technical language.

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neil smith andDEiRDRE wilson: Modern Linguistics.

Penguin 1979

Chapters 7 and 8 of this text provide a detailed review of presup­position, entailment, and the role of ordered entailments.

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rob van der sandt: Context and Presupposition.

Croom Helm 1988

This book reconsiders the connection between presupposition, context, and the projection problem.

Chapter 5

Cooperation and implicature

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diane blakemore: Understanding Utterances. An

Introduction to Pragmatics. Blackwell 1992

This is an introduction to pragmatics in which Relevance is taken to be the central concept.

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Laurence horn: 'Toward a new taxonomy for pragmatic inference: Q-based and R-based implicature' in Deborah Schiffrin (ed.): Meaning, Form and Use in Context: Linguistic Applications. Georgetown University Press 1984

This paper proposes an alternative approach to analyzing how implicatures arise, using two instead of four maxims.

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paul grice: Studies in the Way of Words. Harvard University Press 1989

This volume includes the collected papers of the philosopher whose ideas are considered by many to be the foundation of con­temporary pragmatics.

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Proceedings of the Berkeley Linguistic Society 16,1990

There is a collection of sixteen papers, presented as a parasession within these published proceedings, on the legacy of Grice, cover­ing a wide range of issues in the analysis of meaning.

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dan sperber and deirdre wilson: Relevance. Blackwell 1986

Presented as a study of human communication, this book takes the single maxim of Relevance as the key. Arguments and illustra­tions are presented to support the contention that 'communicated information comes with a guarantee of relevance'.