Context-Sensitivity and Semantic Minimalism : New Essays on Semantics and Pragmatics.
Title:
Context-Sensitivity and Semantic Minimalism : New Essays on Semantics and Pragmatics.
Author:
Preyer, Gerhard.
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9780191526633
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (374 pages)
Contents:
Contents -- Contributors -- INTRODUCTION -- Semantics and Pragmatics: Some Central Issues -- I. THE DEFENCE OF MODERATE CONTEXTUALISM -- 1. Content, Context, and Composition -- 2. A Little Sensitivity Goes a Long Way -- 3. Radical Minimalism, Moderate Contextualism -- 4. How and Why to be a Moderate Contextualist -- 5. Moderately Sensitive Semantics -- 6. Sense and Insensibility Or Where Minimalism Meets Contextualism -- 7. Prudent Semantics Meets Wanton Speech Act Pluralism -- II. ON CRITIQUES OF SEMANTIC MINIMALISM -- 8. Meanings, Propositions, Context, and Semantical Underdeterminacy -- 9. Semantic Minimalism and Nonindexical Contextualism -- 10. Minimal (Disagreement about) Semantics -- 11. Minimal Propositions, Cognitive Safety Mechanisms, and Psychological Reality -- 12. Minimalism and Modularity -- 13. Minimalism, Psychological Reality, Meaning, and Use -- BACK TO SEMANTIC MINIMALISM -- 14. Minimalism versus Contextualism in Semantics -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- P -- R -- S -- T -- V -- W -- Z.
Abstract:
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 debate is Cappelen and Lepore's claim that context-sensitivity in language is best captured by a combination of semantic minimalism and speech act pluralism.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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