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Proper nouns.

Rutgers The State University of New Jersey - New Brunswick.

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Proper nouns.

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Proper nouns./
Author:	Cumming, Samuel John.
Description:	114 p.
Notes:	Advisers: Ernest Lepore; Jason Stanley.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International69-07A.
Subject:	Language, General. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3319609
ISBN:	9780549708438

Proper nouns.
Cumming, Samuel John.

Proper nouns. - 114 p.

Advisers: Ernest Lepore; Jason Stanley.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Rutgers The State University of New Jersey - New Brunswick, 2007.

This dissertation is an experiment: what happens if we treat proper names as anaphoric expressions on a par with pronouns? The first thing to notice is that a name's 'antecedent' can occur in a discourse prior to the one containing the name. An individual may be introduced and tagged with a name in one context, and then retrieved---using the name---in a later context. To allow for discourse-crossing anaphora, in addition to the usual cross-sentential anaphora, a revision of discourse semantics is in order. Essentially, we must countenance discourse referents that span contexts, and think of contexts, not as islands, but as nodes connected to each other by the discourse referents they share.

ISBN: 9780549708438Subjects--Topical Terms:

1018089
Language, General.

Proper nouns.
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520 $a This dissertation is an experiment: what happens if we treat proper names as anaphoric expressions on a par with pronouns? The first thing to notice is that a name's 'antecedent' can occur in a discourse prior to the one containing the name. An individual may be introduced and tagged with a name in one context, and then retrieved---using the name---in a later context. To allow for discourse-crossing anaphora, in addition to the usual cross-sentential anaphora, a revision of discourse semantics is in order. Essentially, we must countenance discourse referents that span contexts, and think of contexts, not as islands, but as nodes connected to each other by the discourse referents they share.
520 $a Discourse semantics gives rise to a new notion of content determined by discourse reference rather than pure reference. In a space of contexts structured by shared discourse referents, discourse content becomes transmissible. For a piece of content may be sent from one context to another whenever the discourse referents bundled up in the content are held in common by the two contexts.
520 $a The final step is to treat the cognitive state of an agent as just another kind of context, and so a potential recipient of discourse content. Discourse content is more fine-grained than traditional 'singular' content, and so is a better fit for our pre-theoretic intuitions about communication and attitude reporting. This is illustrated by applying the theory to Frege's puzzle, a puzzle of Loar's about communication, Kripke's puzzle about belief, Geach's intentional identity and new breed of 'mixed' de re-de dicto sentence.
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