Context-Sensitivity and Semantic Minimalism
New Essays on Semantics and Pragmatics
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 25 October 2007
- ISBN 9780199213313
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages374 pages
- Size 233x157x22 mm
- Weight 589 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
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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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.
MoreTable of Contents:
Introduction: Semantics and Pragmatics: Some Central Issues
Part I: The Defence of Moderate Contextualism
Content, Context and Composition
A Little Sensitivity goes a Long Way
Radical Minimalism, Moderate Contextualism
How and Why to Be a Moderate Contextualist
Moderately Insensitive Semantics
Sense and Insensitivity: Or where Minimalism meets Contextualism
Prudent Semantics Meets Wanton Speech Act Pluralism
Part II: On Critiques of Semantic Minimalism
How Insensitive Can You Be? Meanings, Propositions, Context, and Semantical Underdeterminacy
Semantic Minimalism and Nonindexical Contextualism
Minimal (Disagreement about) Semantics
Minimal Propositions, Cognitive Safety Mechanisms, and Psychological Reality
Minimalism and Modularity
Minimalism, Psychological Reality, Meaning and Use
Part II: Back to Semantic Minimalism
Minimalism versus Contextualism in Semantics
Index
