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Stage 6: Conveying Information

Stage 6: Conveying Information

pp. 167-235

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, University of Cambridge
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Stage 6 of the journey addresses various aspects of how information is conveyed and organized in a sentence, beginning with the stubborn problems that led to the development of dynamic semantics (‘donkey sentences’ and cross-sentential anaphora), through properties of expressions that are used to refer (descriptions, proper names, indexical expressions), to the organization of information (presuppositions and projective content, topic, focus, coherence). As such, it is a step to the next stage that concerns utterance meaning.

Keywords

  • referring expressions
  • definite descriptions
  • proper names
  • indexical expressions
  • donkey sentences
  • Discourse Representation Theory
  • dynamic semantics
  • presupposition
  • information structure
  • coherence

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