Context-Sensitivity and Semantic Minimalism: New Essays on Semantics and Pragmatics - Rilegato

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ISBN 10: 0199213321 ISBN 13: 9780199213320

Casa editrice: OUP Oxford, 2007

Riassunto

Fifteen specially written papers examine the ways in which the content of what we say is dependent on the context in which we say it. At the centre of the current debate on this subject is Cappelen and Lepore's claim that context-sensitivity in language is best captured by a combination of semantic minimalism and speech act pluralism. Using this theory as their starting point, the contributors to this volume develop a variety of different views about the role of context in communication, and reveal its wide-ranging implications for all issues in the philosophy of language and linguistics.

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L'autore

Gerhard Preyer and Georg Peter are both at the University of Frankfurt.

Contenuti

• Herman Cappelen: Introduction: Semantics and Pragmatics: Some Central Issues
• Part I: The Defence of Moderate Contextualism
• 1: Peter Pagin, Francis Jeffry Pelletier: Content, Context and Composition
• 2: Kenneth A. Taylor: A Little Sensitivity goes a Long Way
• 3: Kepa Korta and John Perry: Radical Minimalism, Moderate Contextualism
• 4: Ishani Maitra: How and Why to Be a Moderate Contextualist
• 5: Sarah-Jane Leslie: Moderately Insensitive Semantics
• 6: Eros Corazza and Jerome Dokic: Sense and Insensitivity: Or where Minimalism meets Contextualism
• 7: Elisabeth Camp: Prudent Semantics Meets Wanton Speech Act Pluralism
• Part II: On Critiques of Semantic Minimalism
• 8: Jay Atlas: How Insensitive Can You Be? Meanings, Propositions, Context, and Semantical Underdeterminacy
• 9: John MacFarlane: Semantic Minimalism and Nonindexical Contextualism
• 10: Lenny Clapp: Minimal (Disagreement about) Semantics
• 11: Reinaldo Elugardo: Minimal Propositions, Cognitive Safety Mechanisms, and Psychological Reality
• 12: Philip Robbins: Minimalism and Modularity
• 13: Henry Jackman: Minimalism, Psychological Reality, Meaning and Use
• Part II: Back to Semantic Minimalism
• 14: Emma Borg: Minimalism versus Contextualism in Semantics
• Index

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: OUP Oxford
• Data di pubblicazione: 2007
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0199213321
• ISBN 13: 9780199213320
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 374
• Redattore: Preyer Gerhard, Peter Georg
• Contatto del produttore: Messaggerie Libri; ufficio.anagrafiche@meli.it; ; Via Verdi, 8.; Assago Milano; 20090; Italia