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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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Malden, MA :
Blackwell Pub.,
2005.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| 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. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xii, 219 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 209-214) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780470755792 0470755792 1405144785 9781405144780 9781405186278 1405186275 9781405126748 1405126744 9781405126755 1405126752 |