Meaning and Context

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The contextual contributions to meaning are at the core of the debate about the semantics/pragmatics distinction, one of the liveliest topics in current philosophy of language and linguistics. The controversy between semantic minimalists and contextualists regarding context and semantic content is a conspicuous example of the debate's relevance. This collection of essays, written by leading philosophers as well as talented young researchers, offers new approaches to the ongoing discussion about…

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Full title :Meaning and Context.

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Publication Date:2011.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Place of Publication:Berne
Language:eng
Publication Date:2011.

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Description:1 online resource (322 pages).

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ISBN:9783035101584, 3035101582
oclc:ocn956650273
LC Classification:B831.5 ǂb M43 2010eb
Dewey Decimal:401/.45

1 Luca Baptista & Erich Rast; Introduction 1; 2 Manuel Garcia-Carpintero; Norms of Presupposition 17; 3 Emma Borg; Minimalism and the Content of the Lexicon 51; 4 Anne Bezuidenhout; Contextualism and Information Structure: Towards a Science of Pragmatics 79; 5 Agustin Vicente & Fernando Martinez-Manrique ; Lexical Concepts: From Contextualism to Concept Decompositionalism 111; 6 Isidora Stojanovic; Referring With Proper Names: Towards a Pragmatic Account 139; 7 Kepa Korta & John Perry; Intentions to Refer 161; 8 Brian Ball; What Is Semantic Content? 187; 9 Sandy Berkovski.

Some Remarks on Mthat 21310 Teresa Marques; Truth and the Ambiguity of Negation 235; 11 Ana Falcato; The Contextualist Fight Against Minimalism 255; 12 Salvatore Pistoia-Reda; Some Notes on Game Theory and the Pragmatics of Alternatives 269; 13 Andrei Moldovan; Can Uses of Language in Thought Provide Linguistic Evidence? 283; Author Index 307.