>Oratio Obliqua, Oratio Recta
>An Essay on Metarepresentation
>Frangois Recanati
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>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
>metarepresentation. An example is "Authors believe that people read books."
>
>In this book Frangois Recanati discusses the structure of
>metarepresentation from a variety of perspectives. According to him,
>metarepresentations 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
>metarepresentations carry the content of the object representation, they
>must be about whatever the object representation is about.
>Metarepresentations 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.
>
>Frangois Recanati is a Research Director at CREA/CNRS in Paris.
>
>6 x 9, 450 pp., 2 illus., paper ISBN 0-262-68116-1, cloth ISBN 0-262-18199-1
>Representation and Mind series
>A Bradford Book
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