Meaning and context
by Baptista, Luca Rast, Erich H.
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 / Luca Baptista & Erich Rast (eds.).
Summary
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 the status of lexical meaning and the role of context dependence in linguistic theorizing. It covers a broad range of issues in semantics and pragmatics such as pre-suppositions, reference, lexical meaning, discourse relations and information structure, negation, and metaphors. The book is an essential reading for philosophers, linguists, and graduate students of philosophy of language and linguistics.
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- Publication Date:©2010.
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- Publisher(s):Peter Lang
- Place of Publication:Bern
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:©2010.
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- Description:1 online resource (311 pages) : : illustrations
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9783035101584, 3035101582, 3034305745, 9783034305747
- oclc:ocn811387148
- LC Classification:B831.5
- Dewey Decimal:401/.45
Table of Contents
Introduction / Luca Baptista & Erich Rast -- Norms of presupposition / Manuel García-Carpintero -- Minimalism and the content of the lexicon / Emma Borg -- Contextualism and information structure; towards a science of pragmatics / Anne Bezuidenhout -- Lexical concepts: from contextualism to concept decompositionalism / Agustín Vicente & Fernando Martínez-Manrique -- Referring with proper names: towards a pragmatic account / Isidora Stojanovic -- Intentions to refer / Kepa Korta & John Perry -- What is semantic content? / Brian Ball -- Some remarks on Mthat / Sandy Berkovski -- Truth and the ambiguity of negation / Teresa Marques -- The contextualist fight against minimalism / Ana Falcato -- Some notes on game theory and the pragmatics of alternatives / Salvatore Pistoia-Reda -- Can uses of language in thought provide linguistic evidence? / Andrei Moldovan.
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