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24. The Philosophy of P. F. Strawson

Author

Bezuidenhout, Anne L.

Subjects
The Philosophy of P. F. Strawson (Book), Books -- Book reviews, Philosophy and religion
Abstract

By L.E. HAHN, ed. Chicago and LaSalle: Open Court, 1998. Pp. xviii, 428. This is the twenty-sixth volume in the Library of Living Philosophers, a series founded by Paul A. [...]

Published
2001

25. An Essay on Belief and Acceptance

Author

Bezuidenhout, Anne

Subjects
An Essay on Belief and Acceptance (Book), Books -- Book reviews, Philosophy and religion
Abstract

Cohen, L. Jonathan. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1992. 163 pp. Cloth, $35.00; paper, $18.95--As the title suggests, this book is centered around a distinction between belief and acceptance. A parallel distinction [...]

Published
1996

27. Topic chains in dialogues

Author

Bezuidenhout, Anne, Terkourafi, Marina, Adli, Aria, Bezuidenhout, Anne, Terkourafi, Marina, and Adli, Aria

Abstract

This paper analyzes topic chains (TChs) in spontaneous speech dialogues. The chain-building property of topical elements is an essential means for managing prominence on the discourse level, creating thematic coherence across sentences. TChs relate the sentential and the discourse aspect of information structure by extending the sentence-internal division between prominent and non-prominent information to the cross-sentential level, where we can distinguish between categorical sentences that continue a TCh and those that begin a new TCh. The paper examines the role of the speaker and addressee feature (Harley and Ritter, 2002) on chain building. My assumption is that prominence management differs between 3rd and 1st/2nd person topics, i.e. according to [-local] or [+local] (Ritter and Wiltschko, 2009). I assume that common assumptions on TChs (Chafe, 1976; Reinhart, 1981; Brunetti, 2009) are plausible with 3rd person referents, but much less so with local persons: 1st and 2nd persons are never new referents in a dialogue situation. I therefore propose an analysis with two parallel TChs: one in the local domain and one in the nonlocal domain. The paper concentrates on topical overt and null subject pronouns in Spanish. I will demonstrate that a detailed analysis of topicality differentiating between two parallel chains allows us to understand hitherto unexplained variance with regard to the variation between sentences with realized subject pronouns (e.g. yo canto esta canción ‘I sing this song’) and their counterparts with zero subjects (e.g. ∅ canto esta canción ‘I sing this song’).

Published
2019

30. Consciousness and Language

Author

Bezuidenhout, Anne

Subjects
Consciousness and Language (Nonfiction work) -- Book reviews, Books -- Book reviews, Languages and linguistics
Published
2006

47. VP-ELLIPSIS AND THE CASE FOR REPRESENTATIONALISM IN SEMANTICS.

Author

Bezuidenhout, Anne

Subjects
DEBATE, ELLIPSIS (Grammar), SENTENCES (Grammar), MENTAL representation, SEMANTICS, COGNITION, SENSORY perception, INFORMATION theory, PHILOSOPHY
Abstract

The article presents information on the debates between the representationalists and the anti-representationalists related to the use of truth-conditions including VP-ellipsis in semantics. The debate tries to find out whether the relevance of truth conditions should be applied directly to natural language sentences or they should portray mental representations. The examination of several recent work related to ellipses are presented. Some working assumptions and disclaimers are presented including the consideration of natural language semantics from the cognitive perspective.

Published
2006

48. <atl>Literal meaning, minimal propositions, and pragmatic processing

Author

Bezuidenhout, Anne and Cutting, J. Cooper

Subjects
*CONVERSATION, *PRAGMATICS
Abstract

Relevance theorists and others have argued that what a speaker ‘says’ is determined by contextual factors to a greater extent than allowed for by Grice. This dispute has consequences for what Grice called generalized conversational implicatures. Contextualists have argued that the propositions that Grice thinks of as implicated in a generalized way should be treated as part of what is said. Griceans, on the other hand, by insisting that these are conversationally implicated, are committed to postulating more minimal propositions for the role of what is said. This paper examines whether such minimal propositions play a role in utterance understanding. Three pragmatic processing models, which embody some of the assumptions of the rival philosophical views, are postulated. The results of a series of experiments designed to test the predictions of these processing models are reported. Our results lend some initial support to a model in which minimal and contextually enriched interpretations are constructed in parallel, with a bias towards the enriched interpretations. However, the final section of the paper suggests a number of ways in which the issue of the role of minimal propositions still remains open for empirical exploration. [Copyright &y& Elsevier]

Published
2002
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49. Book reviews.

Author

Bezuidenhout, Anne

Subjects
ESSAY on Belief & Acceptance, An (Book)
Abstract

Reviews the book `An Essay on Belief and Acceptance,' by Jonathan L. Cohen.

Published
1996

50. The cognitive constraints on singular thought.

Author

Bezuidenhout, Anne Louise

Subjects
Language, Linguistics, Philosophy, Psychology, General
Abstract

An initial distinction is made between two ways of referring in thought to a particular object. One can think of an object in virtue of having a descriptive condition in mind which uniquely denotes that object. Alternatively, one can think about a particular in a more direct way. It is with the nature of this more direct sort of reference that the subsequent discussion is primarily concerned. It has been argued that the relation of direct reference is purely causal in nature. A number of difficulties are raised for this causal view. A diagnosis of these difficulties suggests that the causal view ignores the cognitive aspects of direct reference. The idea that direct reference is a cognitive relation is not new. Bertrand Russell's notion of knowledge by acquaintance can be thought of as involving the idea of a relation of reference which is direct and cognitive. A good place to begin an exploration of the cognitive dimensions of direct reference is with Russell's notion of acquaintance. Thus this notion is analysed in some depth. An objection to the effect that acquaintance is a relation incapable in principle of playing a role in an account of reference is shown to be unfounded. This clears the way for an extended discussion of the nature of acquaintance. This discussion suggests that we should posit a special demonstrative way in which objects can be presented to us. This demonstrative way of being presented with an object is in turn explored by way of an extended metaphor, in which it is suggested that becoming acquainted with an object should be thought of as the opening of a mental file of a special sort for that object. Some indirect support for this account of demonstrative modes of presentation and the associated account of direct reference comes from the fact that these notions can help solve the problem of cognitive significance that has been thought to pose a serious threat to theories that somehow treat reference as direct. Finally, some potential counterexamples are examined and shown not to seriously threaten the acquaintance theory of direct reference.

Published
1990

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