Meaning and ContextLuca Baptista, Erich H. Rast 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 presuppositions, 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. |
Contents
Luca Baptista Erich Rast | 1 |
Brian Ball | 11 |
Norms of Presupposition | 17 |
Emma Borg | 51 |
Anne Bezuidenhout | 79 |
Agustín Vicente Fernando MartínezManrique | 111 |
Isidora Stojanovic | 139 |
Kepa Korta John Perry | 161 |
What Is Semantic Content? | 187 |
Sandy Berkovski | 213 |
Teresa Marques | 235 |
Ana Falcato | 255 |
Salvatore PistoiaReda | 269 |
Andrei Moldovan | 283 |
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ambiguity argue argument assertion atomism Bob Dole Borg Cambridge Cappelen claim cognitive fix coherence relation communication constraint context of utterance context-sensitive contextualist conversational decompositionalism descriptivism discourse coherence discourse connectives discussion encoded concepts entity eternal sentences example explain expressions fact Fodor Gricean implicatures implicit causality indexicals infected the PC inferences intention internalist interpretation intuitions Jackendoff Kaplan kind language in thought Lepore lexical complexity lexical meaning lexical semantics lexically encoded lexicon linguistic literal meaning locutionary act metaphorical Mind & Language minimal proposition minimalist natural language negation normative account notion object Oxford University Press Philosophy philosophy of language polysemy pragmatic pragmatic modulation pragmatic processes presupposing presuppositions pronoun resolution proper names properties Recanati reference referential relevant representation role seems semantic content semantic theory sense sentential utterances speaker speech act Stalnaker Stalnaker's structure synonymy syntactic Tareq thematic role things true truth truth-conditional truth-evaluable underdeterminacy verbs word meanings