Meaning and Context.
Title:
Meaning and Context.
Author:
Baptista, Luca.
ISBN:
9783035101584
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (322 pages)
Series:
Lisbon Philosophical Studies - Uses of Languages in Interdisciplinary Fields ; v.2
Lisbon Philosophical Studies - Uses of Languages in Interdisciplinary Fields
Contents:
Contents -- 1 Luca Baptista & Erich Rast -- Introduction 1 -- 2 Manuel García-Carpintero -- Norms of Presupposition 17 -- 3 Emma Borg -- Minimalism and the Content of the Lexicon 51 -- 4 Anne Bezuidenhout -- Contextualism and Information Structure: Towards a Science of Pragmatics 79 -- 5 Agustín Vicente & Fernando Martínez-Manrique -- Lexical Concepts: From Contextualism to Concept Decompositionalism 111 -- 6 Isidora Stojanovic -- Referring With Proper Names: Towards a Pragmatic Account 139 -- 7 Kepa Korta & John Perry -- Intentions to Refer 161 -- 8 Brian Ball -- What Is Semantic Content? 187 -- 9 Sandy Berkovski -- Some Remarks on Mthat 213 -- 10 Teresa Marques -- Truth and the Ambiguity of Negation 235 -- 11 Ana Falcato -- The Contextualist Fight Against Minimalism 255 -- 12 Salvatore Pistoia-Reda -- Some Notes on Game Theory and the Pragmatics of Alternatives 269 -- 13 Andrei Moldovan -- Can Uses of Language in Thought Provide Linguistic Evidence? 283 -- Author Index 307.
Abstract:
The contextual contributions to meaning are at the core of the debate about the semantics/pragmatics distinction, one of the liveliest topics in current philosophy of language and linguistics. The controversy between semantic minimalists and contextualists regarding context and semantic content is a conspicuous example of the debate's relevance. This collection of essays, written by leading philosophers as well as talented young researchers, offers new approaches to the ongoing discussion about the status of lexical meaning and the role of context dependence in linguistic theorizing. It covers a broad range of issues in semantics and pragmatics such as presuppositions, reference, lexical meaning, discourse relations and information structure, negation, and metaphors. The book is an essential reading for philosophers, linguists, and graduate students of philosophy of language and linguistics.
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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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