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Context-sensitivity and semantic minimalism : new essays on semantics and pragmatics / edited by Gerhard Preyer and Georg Peter.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Oxford scholarship online.
- Oxford scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Semantics.
- Minimalist theory (Linguistics).
- Context (Linguistics).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (374 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2023.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 15 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 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.
- 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 Contextualism10. 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
- Notes:
- Formerly CIP.
- Previously issued in print: 2007.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Derived record based on print version record and publisher information.
- ISBN:
- 1-383-03508-3
- 1-281-14919-5
- 9786611149192
- 0-19-152663-0
- OCLC:
- 476240839
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