Insensitive semantics : a defense of semantic minimalism and speech act pluralism /

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 o...

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Main Author: Cappelen, Herman
Other Authors: LePore, Ernest, 1950-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Malden, MA : Blackwell Pub., 2005.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
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Summary: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 contextualismAddresses broad and varied aspects of the distinction between the semantic and non-semantic content of languageDefends a distinctive and explanatorily powerful combination of semantic min.
Physical Description:1 online resource (xii, 219 pages) : illustrations
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (pages 209-214) and index.
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