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Autore: | Cappelen Herman |
Titolo: | Insensitive Semantics [[electronic resource] ] : A Defense of Semantic Minimalism and Speech Act Pluralism |
Pubblicazione: | Hoboken, : Wiley, 2008 |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (234 p.) |
Disciplina: | 401.43 |
401/.43 | |
Soggetto topico: | Context (Linguistics) |
Minimalist theory (Linguistics) | |
Semantics | |
Semantics (Philosophy) | |
Speech acts (Linguistics) | |
Languages & Literatures | |
Philology & Linguistics | |
Altri autori: | LeporeErnest |
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 |
Titolo autorizzato: | Insensitive Semantics |
ISBN: | 0-470-75491-5 |
9786610198511 | |
0-470-75579-2 | |
1-4051-8627-5 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910830595803321 |
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