Context-sensitivity and semantic minimalism [[electronic resource] ] : new essays on semantics and pragmatics / / edited by Gerhard Preyer and Georg Peter

• Pubblicazione: Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2007
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (374 p.)
• Disciplina: 401/.43
• Soggetto topico: Semantics; Minimalist theory (Linguistics); Context (Linguistics)
• Altri autori: PreyerGerhard PeterGeorg
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Contents; Contributors; INTRODUCTION; Semantics and Pragmatics: Some Central Issues; I. THE DEFENCE OF MODERATE CONTEXTUALISM; 1. Content, Context, and Composition; 2. A Little Sensitivity Goes a Long Way; 3. Radical Minimalism, Moderate Contextualism; 4. How and Why to be a Moderate Contextualist; 5. Moderately Sensitive Semantics; 6. Sense and Insensibility Or Where Minimalism Meets Contextualism; 7. Prudent Semantics Meets Wanton Speech Act Pluralism; II. ON CRITIQUES OF SEMANTIC MINIMALISM; 8. Meanings, Propositions, Context, and Semantical Underdeterminacy ; 9. Semantic Minimalism and Nonindexical Contextualism10. Minimal (Disagreement about) Semantics; 11. Minimal Propositions, Cognitive Safety Mechanisms, and Psychological Reality; 12. Minimalism and Modularity; 13. Minimalism, Psychological Reality, Meaning, and Use; BACK TO SEMANTIC MINIMALISM; 14. Minimalism versus Contextualism in Semantics; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; P; R; S; T; V; W; Z
• Sommario/riassunto: Fifteen specially written papers examine the ways in which the content of what we say is dependent on the context in which we say it. At the centre of the debate is Cappelen and Lepore's claim that context-sensitivity in language is best captured by a combination of semantic minimalism and speech act pluralism. - ;Fifteen specially written papers examine the ways in which the content of what we say is dependent on the context in which we say it. At the centre of the current debate on this subject is Cappelen and Lepore's claim that context-sensitivity in language is best captured by a combinat
• Titolo autorizzato: Context-sensitivity and semantic minimalism
• ISBN: 1-383-03508-3; 1-281-14919-5; 9786611149192; 0-19-152663-0
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910784989403321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II