Default Semantics: Foundations of a Compositional Theory of Acts of Communication - Softcover

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Kasia Jaszczolt is Professor of Linguistics and Philosophy of Language at the University of Cambridge and Fellow and Director of Studies in Linguistics at Newnham College, Cambridge. She is the author of Discourse, Beliefs, and Intentions: Semantic Defaults and Propositional Attitude Ascription (1999) and Semantics and Pragmatics: Meaning in Language and Discourse (2002), and of many articles on the semantics and pragmatics of referring expressions, propositional attitude reports, and various aspects of semantic ambiguity and underspecification. She has edited three books on contrastive semantics and pragmatics and propositional attitudes. Her Oxford DPhil was awarded in 1992 for her dissertation on the semantics of propositional attitude constructions. She is general editor of the book series Current Research in the Semantics/Pragmatics Interface.