Situation Theory and Its Applications Volume 1 CSLI Lecture Notes Number 22

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ISBN 10: 0937073547 / ISBN 13: 9780937073544

Edité par Centre for the Study of Language and Information, Stanford, 1990

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• Titre: Situation Theory and Its Applications Volume 1 CSLI Lecture Notes Number 22
• Éditeur: Centre for the Study of Language and Information, Stanford
• Date de parution: 1990
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0937073547
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780937073544
• Reliure: Hard Cover
• Édition: First Edition.
• État de l'article: Good
• État de la jaquette: No Jacket
• Type de livre: A00016866

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Synopsis

Situation Theory grew out of attempts by Jon Barwise in the late 1970s to provide a semantics for 'naked-infinitive' perceptual reports such as 'Claire saw Jon run'. Barwise's intuition was that Claire didn't just see Jon, an individual, but Jon doing something, a situation. Situations are individuals having properties and standing in relations. A theory of situations would allow us to study and compare various types of situations or situation-like entitles, such as facts, events, and scenes. One of the central themes of situation theory of meaning and reference should be set within a general theory of information, one moreover that is rich enough to do justice to perception, communication, and thought. By now many people have contributed by the need to give a rigorous mathematical account of the principles of information that underwrite the theory.