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Words and contents / Richard Vallée ; foreword by John Perry.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Vallée, Richard, 1957- author.
- Series:
- CSLI lecture notes ; no. 222.
- CSLI lecture notes ; no. 222
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Semantics.
- Indexicals (Semantics).
- Connotation (Linguistics).
- Context (Linguistics).
- Proposition (Logic).
- Semantics (Philosophy).
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 199 pages ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Stanford, California : CSLI Publications, Center for the Study of Language and Information, [2018]
- Summary:
- "The papers in Richard Vallée's Words and Contents span twenty-one years. The author navigates the discovery and exploration of different expressions and perspectives on language in this volume. Beginning with referring expressions and later addressing context sensitivity, the book examines how specific words contribute to the contents of utterances and the philosophical issues that surround them"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Who are we?
- Talking about us
- Complex demonstratives, articulation, and overarticulation
- Unarticulated comparison classes
- Conventional implicature revisited
- On local bars and imported beer
- Slurring and common knowledge of ordinary language
- Color adjectives, compositionality and true utterances.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781684000388
- 1684000386
- 9781684000395
- 1684000394
- OCLC:
- 1048015226
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