Insensitive Semantics [[electronic resource] ] : A Defense of Semantic Minimalism and Speech Act Pluralism

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910840821003321
• Autore: Cappelen Herman
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Hoboken, : Wiley, 2008
• ISBN: 0-470-75491-5; 9786610198511; 0-470-75579-2; 1-4051-8627-5
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (234 p.)
• Altri autori (Persone): LeporeErnest
• Disciplina: 401.43; 401/.43
• Soggetti: Context (Linguistics); Minimalist theory (Linguistics); Semantics; Semantics (Philosophy); Speech acts (Linguistics); Languages & Literatures; Philology & Linguistics
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di contenuto: Insensitive Semantics: A Defense of Semantic Minimalism and Speech Act Pluralism; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; 1 Overview; Part I: From Moderate to Radical Contextualism; 2 Exegesis: The Methodology of Contextualism; 3 The Instability of Context Shifting Arguments; 4 Diagnosis: Why Context Shifting Arguments are Misused; 5 The Instability of Incompleteness Arguments; 6 Digressions: Binding and Hidden Indexicals; Part II: Refutation of Radical Contextualism; 7 Objections to Radical Contextualism (I): Fails Context Sensitivity Tests; 8 Objections to Radical Contextualism (II): Makes Communication Impossible9 Objections to Radical Contextualism (III): Internal Inconsistency; Part III: Semantic Minimalism and Speech Act Pluralism; 10 Semantic Minimalism; 11 Semantics and Metaphysics; 12 Semantics ; and Psychology; 13 Speech Act Pluralism; References; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Insensitive Semantics is an overview of and contribution to the debates about how to accommodate context sensitivity within a theory of human communication, investigating the effects of context on communicative interaction and, as a corollary, what a context of utterance is and what it is to be in one. Provides detailed and wide-ranging overviews of the central positions and arguments surrounding contextualism Addresses broad and varied aspects of the distinction between the semantic and non-semantic content of language <br