Meaning in linguistic interaction : semantics, metasemantics, philosophy of language / Kasia M. Jaszczolt.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jaszczolt, Katarzyna, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Language and languages--Philosophy.

Language and languages.

Semantics.

Physical Description:

xii, 215 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, 2016.

Summary:

This book offers a semantic and metasemantic inquiry into the representation of meaning in linguistic interaction. The author's view represents the most radical stance on meaning to be found in the contextualist tradition and thereby the most radical take on the semantics/pragmatics boundary. It allows for the selection of the cognitively plausible object of inquiry without being constrained by such distinctions as what is said/what is implicated or what is linguistic and what is extralinguistic. She argues that this is the only promising stance on meaning. The analysis transcends the traditional distinctions drawn, and traditional questions posed, in post-Gricean pragmatics and philosophy of language. It heavily relies on the dynamic construction of meaning in discourse, using truth conditions as a tool but at the same time conforming to pragmatic compositionality - whereby aspects of meaning that enter this composition have very different provenance.

Contents:

Preface

List of abbreviations and symbols. Introduction. 1 Wrong about meaning : Setting the scene

The point of departure: language system or conversational interaction?

"Minimalists," "maximalists," and "fixers" : Options and prospects for "minimalist" semantics

Options and prospects for "maximalist" semantics

Some points of convergence

Literal meaning: an orthogonal issue?

The "literal" confounded

Why "literal" can't be restored

...or can it?

Rethinking the contextualist outlook

The systematicity issue

Salience-based contextualism

Whose meaning?

In search of the adequate content

Semantics, pragmatics, and their boundary: beyond the state of the art

The role of the language system and cognitive minimalism

THe role of a formal metalanguage in "meaning as use"

Concluding remarks and "post-border-wars" reflections. 2 Interactive composition of meaning : Compositionality and its myths

Misplaced truth conditions

Misplaced faith in logical form

Putting it right: the semantics of linguistic interaction

A précis of default semantics

The metaphysics of grammar

Default semantics and a dedicated module: a disclaimer

Lexicon/grammar/pragmatics trade-offs: an example

Ways to temporality

Vehicles of temporal reference. 3 Defaults in context : Salient meanings and default meanings

Primary meaning vis-à-vis the explicit/implicit distinction

Psychologism: a "corrupting intrusion?"

Concluding remarks. 4 Delimiting the lexicon : Dynamic words

Where lexicon ends and pragmatics begins

Against meaning shifts

Fluid characters

Indexicality and language use

The facets of context

Referring expressions and referring agents. 5 The demise of indexicals: a case study : Expressing the SELF: a preamble

First-person perspective

Delimiting the first-person indexical

A view from elsewhere

A view from home

Mode of self-presentation

De se thoughts and de se reports in default semantics

Disclaimers, conclusions, and further prospects. Conclusion: dispelling semantic myths. References

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 193-208) and index.

ISBN:

9780199602469

0199602468

OCLC:

939551709