Context and Coherence The Logic and Grammar of Prominence

Una Stojnić, Princeton University

Una Stojnić is an assistant professor of philosophy in the Department of Philosophy, Princeton University. Prior to joining Princeton, she was an assistant professor in the Department of Philosophy at Columbia University, a Bersoff assistant professor and faculty fellow in Philosophy at NYU, and a research fellow in philosophy in the School of Philosophy at ANU. She earned her PhD in Philosophy and a Certificate in Cognitive Science from Rutgers University in 2016.

1. Introduction
Part I: So, What is Context and How Does it Work?
2. The Model of a True Demonstrative: Extra-linguistic Effects on Situated Meaning
3. An Alleged Ambiguity and the Dynamics of Context Change
4. Pointing Things Out: Prominence and the Attentional State of a Discourse
5. Context and Discourse Conventions
6. Interlude: Context and Common Ground
Part II: Contextualizing Content
7. Content in Context
8. The Challenge: Non-propositionalism
9. Dynamic Propositionalism
Part III: The Logic of Prominence
10. Content, Context and Logic
11. Prominence Semantics for Modality
Part IV: Conclusions and Directions
12. The Grammar of Prominence
Part V: Appendices
Appendix A: Formal Definitions for the Attention-Coherence Approach to Pronoun Resolution
Appendix B: A Formal Language for Modality with Coherence