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Overview"Among the entities that can be mentally or linguistically represented are mental and linguistic representations themselves. That is, we can think and talk about speech and thought. This phenomenon is known as metapresentation. An example is ""Authors believe that people read books"". In this book Francois Recanati discusses the structure of metapresentation from a variety of perspectives. According to him, metapresentations have a dual structure: their content includes the content of the object-representation (people reading books) as well as the ""meta"" part (the authors' belief). Rejecting the view that the object representation is mentioned rather than used, Recanati claims that since metapresentations carry the content of the object representation, they must be about whatever the object representation is about. Metapresentations are fundamentally transparent because they work by ""simulating"" the representation they are about. Topics covered in this wide-ranging work include the analysis of belief reports and talk about fiction, world shifting, opacity and substitutivity, quotation, the relation between direct and indirect discourse, context shifting, semantic pretense, and deference in language and thought." Full Product DetailsAuthor: Francois Recanati (Institut- Jean-Nicod)Publisher: MIT Press Ltd Imprint: Bradford Books Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.590kg ISBN: 9780262681162ISBN 10: 0262681161 Pages: 380 Publication Date: 28 August 2000 Recommended Age: From 18 years Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Out of stock  The supplier is temporarily out of stock of this item. It will be ordered for you on backorder and shipped when it becomes available. Table of ContentsReviewsAuthor InformationTab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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