Semantics vs. pragmatics / edited by Zoltan Gendler Szabo.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Szabó, Zoltán Gendler.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Semantics.

Pragmatics.

Physical Description:

viii, 465 p.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York, N.Y. : Oxford University Press, 2005.

Summary:

Leading scholars in the philosophy of language and theoretical linguistics present brand-new papers on a major topic at the intersection of the two fields, the distinction between semantics and pragmatics. Anyone engaged with this issue in either discipline will find much to reward their attention here.Contributors: Kent Bach, Herman Cappelen, Michael Glanzberg, Jeffrey C. King, Ernie Lepore, Stephen Neale, F. Recanati, Nathan Salmon, Mandy Simons, Scott Soames, Robert J. Stainton, Jason Stanley, Zoltan Gendler Szabo.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

List of Contributors

Introduction

1. Context ex Machina

2. Radical and Moderate Pragmatics: Does Meaning Determine Truth Conditions?

3. Focus: A Case Study on the Semantics-Pragmatics Boundary

4. Semantics, Pragmatics, and the Role of Semantic Content

5. Pragmatism and Binding

6. Deixis and Anaphora

7. Two Conceptions of Semantics

8. Presupposition and Relevance

9. Naming and Asserting

10. In Defense of Non-Sentential Assertion

Index

A

B

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M

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Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

9780191514395

019151439X

OCLC:

437109274