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Record Nr.

UNINA9911019584803321

Autore

Cappelen Herman

Titolo

Insensitive semantics : a defense of semantic minimalism and speech act pluralism / / Herman Cappelen and Ernie Lepore

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Malden, MA, : Blackwell Pub., 2005

ISBN

9786610198511

9780470754917

0470754915

9780470755792

0470755792

9781405186278

1405186275

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (234 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

LePoreErnest <1950->

Disciplina

401/.43

Soggetti

Semantics

Semantics (Philosophy)

Context (Linguistics)

Minimalist theory (Linguistics)

Speech acts (Linguistics)

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 209-214) and index.

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