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Words and thoughts : subsentences, ellipsis, and the philosophy of language / Robert J. Stainton.
LIBRA P107 .S73 2006
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Stainton, Robert.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Language and languages--Philosophy.
- Language and languages.
- Speech acts (Linguistics).
- Grammar, Comparative and general--Ellipsis.
- Grammar, Comparative and general.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 248 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : Clarendon Press ; Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2006.
- Summary:
- It is a near truism of philosophy of language that sentences are prior to words--that they are the only things that fundamentally have meaning. Robert's Stainton's study interrogates this idea, drawing on a wide body of evidence to argue that speakers can and do use mere words, not sentences, to communicate complex thoughts.
- Contents:
- The appearances and some background
- Introduction : the appearances, and what they might mean
- Further background issues
- The genuineness issue
- Not a full-fledged speech act?
- Extra-grammatical maneuvers
- Semantic ellipsis
- Syntactic ellipsis
- A divide-and-conquer strategy
- A positive representational-pragmatic view
- Implications
- Language : thought relations
- Sentence primacy
- Sentences, assertion, and the semantics-pragmatics boundary.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [233]-242) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0199250383
- OCLC:
- 69593907
- Publisher Number:
- 9780199250387
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