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Insensitive Semantics: A Defense of Semantic Minimalism and Speech Act Pluralism

By Herman Cappelen , Ernest Lepore

Book information

Publisher
Wiley-Blackwell
Year
2005
ISBN
9781405126748, 9781405186278, 1405126744, 1405126752, 9781405126755, 9781405144780
LCC
P325 .C285 2005
Open Library ID
OL22606339M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
888 kB (909769 bytes)
Pages
232\225
Time added
2011-04-11 19:55:47

Description

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 Defends a distinctive and explanatorily powerful combination of semantic minimalism and speech act pluralism Confronts core problems which not only run to the heart of philosophy of language and linguistics, but which arise in epistemology, metaphysics, and moral philosophy as well

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