Discourse contextualism: a framework for contextualist semantics and pragmatics

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Alex Silk investigates the role of context in the meaning and use of natural language. Discourse Contextualism provides a systematic account of the distinctive ways in which speakers use context-sensitive expressions to coordinate their attitudes and negotiate about how the context should evolve.

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Full title :Discourse contextualism : a framework for contextualist semantics and pragmatics / Alex Silk.

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Publication Date:2016.
Edition:First edition

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Publisher(s):Oxford University Press
Place of Publication:Oxford
Language:eng
Publication Date:2016.

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Description:1 online resource (vii, 255 pages)

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ISBN:9780191086526, 0191086525, 9780191826573, 019182657X
oclc:ocn956731135
LC Classification:B809.14
Dewey Decimal:121

Cover; Discourse Contextualism: A Framework for Contextualist Semantics and Pragmatics; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Epigraph; 1: Introduction: CR-Expressions and Discourse Contextualism; PART I: Discourse Contextualism: An Application to Epistemic Modals; 2: Accommodation and Negotiation with Context-Sensitive Expressions; 2.1 Epistemic Modals and Discourse Disagreement; 2.2 Insufficient Replies; 2.2.1 The Varieties of Linguistic Denial. Metacontextual Negotiation; 2.2.2 Epistemic Modals in a Language Game; 2.2.3 Recap.

2.3 Accommodation and Negotiation with Paradigm Context-Sensitive Expressions; 2.4 AWay Forward; 2.5 Managing the Context: Toward Discourse Contextualism; 3: Discourse Contextualism I: Epistemic Modals in Discourse; 3.1 Components 1 and 2 : From Formal Semantics to Interpretive Constraints; 3.2 Component : Using Epistemic Modals. The Basic Account; 3.3 Features; 3.3.1 Justified Use; 3.3.2 Locus of Disagreement; 3.3.3 Discourse-Oriented Effects; 3.3.4 Expressing States of Mind; 3.3.5 Expressive vs. Intuitively Contextualist Uses; 3.3.6 Anaphoric Properties. Contextual Underspecification.

3.3.7 Recap; 3.4 More Data: Retraction and Eavesdroppers; 3.4.1 Ret…