LEADER 03802nam 22008293u 450 001 9910840821003321 005 20230721030542.0 010 $a0-470-75491-5 010 $a9786610198511 010 $a0-470-75579-2 010 $a1-4051-8627-5 035 $a(CKB)1000000000400131 035 $a(EBL)351214 035 $a(OCoLC)476171136 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000179742 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11183117 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000179742 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10139616 035 $a(PQKB)10083762 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC351214 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000400131 100 $a20131014d2008|||| u|| | 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aInsensitive Semantics$b[electronic resource] $eA Defense of Semantic Minimalism and Speech Act Pluralism 210 $aHoboken $cWiley$d2008 215 $a1 online resource (234 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a1-4051-2674-4 327 $aInsensitive 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 327 $a8 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 330 $aInsensitive 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