Context-Sensitivity and Semantic Minimalism: New Essays on Semantics and Pragmatics

by Gerhard Preyer (Editor), Georg Peter (Editor)

Overview

Fifteen specially written papers examine the ways in which the content of what we say is dependent on the context in which we say it. At the centre of the current debate on this subject is Cappelen and Lepore's claim that context-sensitivity in language is best captured by a combination of semantic minimalism and speech act pluralism. Using this theory as their starting point, the contributors to this volume develop a variety of different views about the role of context in communication, and reveal its wide-ranging implications for all issues in the philosophy of language and linguistics.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780191526633
Publisher:	OUP Oxford
Publication date:	10/25/2007
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	832 KB

Table of Contents

Introduction: Semantics and Pragmatics: Some Central Issues, Herman CappelenPart I: The Defence of Moderate Contextualism1. Content, Context and Composition, Peter Pagin, Francis Jeffry Pelletier2. A Little Sensitivity goes a Long Way, Kenneth A. Taylor3. Radical Minimalism, Moderate Contextualism, Kepa Korta and John Perry4. How and Why to Be a Moderate Contextualist, Ishani Maitra5. Moderately Insensitive Semantics, Sarah-Jane Leslie6. Sense and Insensitivity: Or where Minimalism meets Contextualism, Eros Corazza and Jerome Dokic7. Prudent Semantics Meets Wanton Speech Act Pluralism, Elisabeth CampPart II: On Critiques of Semantic Minimalism8. How Insensitive Can You Be? Meanings, Propositions, Context, and Semantical Underdeterminacy, Jay Atlas9. Semantic Minimalism and Nonindexical Contextualism, John MacFarlane10. Minimal (Disagreement about) Semantics, Lenny Clapp11. Minimal Propositions, Cognitive Safety Mechanisms, and Psychological Reality, Reinaldo Elugardo12. Minimalism and Modularity, Philip Robbins13. Minimalism, Psychological Reality, Meaning and Use, Henry JackmanPart II: Back to Semantic Minimalism14. Minimalism versus Contextualism in Semantics, Emma BorgIndex