Reference: Interdisciplinary Perspectives

by Jeanette K. Gundel and Nancy Hedberg

The ability to produce and understand referring expressions is basic to human language use and human cognition. Reference comprises the ability to think of and represent objects (both real and imagined/fictional), to indicate to others which of these objects we are talking about, and to determine what others are talking about when they use a nominal expression.

The articles in this volume are concerned with some of the central themes and challenges...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 019533163X
• ISBN13: 9780195331639
• Release Date: January 2008
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.4" x 9.4"