ISBN:
9781402083105
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource
,
v.: digital
Edition:
Online-Ausg. Springer eBook Collection. Humanities, Social Science and Law
Series Statement:
Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy 85
DDC:
401.41
Keywords:
Linguistics
;
Linguistics Philosophy
;
Semantics
;
Aufsatzsammlung
;
Kompositionalität
;
Semantik
;
Sprachphilosophie
Abstract:
Are natural languages genuinely compositional? What roles does context play in linguistic communication, and by what means? In particular, does context interfere with the compositional determination of truth conditions? What meanings should theorists assign to sentences if compositionality is to be retained? These are the central questions of this important volume of new philosophical essays in honour of Ernie Lepore.
Abstract:
Are natural languages genuinely compositional? What roles does context play in linguistic communication, and by what means? In particular, does context interfere with the compositional determination of truth conditions? What meanings should theorists assign to sentences if compositionality is to be retained? These are the central questions of this important volume of new philosophical essays in honour of Ernie Lepore
Description / Table of Contents:
CONTENTS; Part I Compositionality; "If", "Unless", and Quantification; Bridging the Paratactic Gap; Part II Context and "What Is Said"; On the Epistemic Utility of What is Said; In Defense of Context Shifting Arguments; Contextualism, Skepticism and Objectivity; On Failing to Capture Some (or Even All) of What is Communicated; Part III Semantic Values; The Disunity of Truth; Descriptions, Negation, and Focus; Evidentials: Some Preliminary Distinctions; The Direct Expression of Metaphorical Content; The Empirical Case for Bare Demonstratives in Vision; Index;
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
DOI:
10.1007/978-1-4020-8310-5
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