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20.12.2002 Book announcement

I thought readers of the Human Language List might be interested in this book.
For more information please visit http://mitpress.mit.edu/0262025191

Terms and Truth
Reference Direct and Anaphoric
Alan Berger

In this book Alan Berger further develops the new theory of reference--as formulated by Kripke and Putnam--applying it in novel ways to many philosophical problems concerning reference and existence. Berger argues that his notion of anaphoric background condition and anaphoric links within a linguistic community are crucial not only to a theory of reference, but to the analysis of these problems as well.

The book is organized in three parts. In part I, Berger distinguishes between two styles of rigid designation. Based on this distinction, he develops a theory of reference change for rigid designator terms and shows how this distinction sheds light on identity statements. In part II, he offers an account of belief attribution containing vacuous names within the belief context, of intentional identity statements, and of true negative existential statements. In part III, he analyzes anaphoric expressions (i.e., expressions whose reference is determined in part by other clauses or sentences in a given discourse) and presents a formalization of anaphora and plural quantification.

Alan Berger is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Brandeis University.

6 x 9, 232 pp., cloth, ISBN 0-262-02519-1

A Bradford Book

Electronic Dictionary

New electronic dictionary "Religious Lexicon in Russian Poetry of Silver Age" (A-G) (add by V.P.Grigoriev)

www.wco.ru/biblio

 

Dictionary of Russian Poetry of XX-th Century

New project: "Dictionary of Russian Poetry of XX-th Century".

Leader of this project - V.P. Grigoryev. (More infomation in Russian version of our announcements). Preliminary version of the dictionary you can find here.

 

Newsdesk for teachers of English

Linguistic Association of Teachers of English at the University of Moscow opened a newsdesk for teachers of English on the territory of the Russian Federation and a Discussion Room for Philologists http://www.glasnet.ru/~marklen/

 

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