Representing Time

This book offers a new approach to the representation of meaning of temporally-located utterances and discourses. Temporality, the author suggests, should be taken to mean degrees of certainty, understood in turn as degrees of acceptability concerning the eventuality referred to in the speaker's utterance.

Kasia M. Jaszczolt (pronounced: Yashchout) is Professor of Linguistics and Philosophy of Language at the Department of Linguistics, University of Cambridge, and Fellow of Newnham College, Cambridge. Her books include Discourse, Beliefs and Intentions: Semantic Defaults and Propositional Attitude Ascription (1999), Semantics and Pragmatics: Meaning in Language and Discourse (2002), and Default Semantics (2005).

Introduction: Thinking About Time and Living in Time
1: Real Time and the Concept of Time
2: Time as Modality
3: Semantic Representation of Time: A Preamble
4: Time in Default Semantics
Conclusion: 'Looking Forward' Into the Future
References
Index