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

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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.
Subjects:
Semantics.
Semantics (Philosophy)
Context (Linguistics)
Minimalist theory (Linguistics)
Speech acts (Linguistics)
Semantics
Electronic books.
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Table of Contents:
  • Preface; Acknowledgments; CHAPTER 1 Overview; CHAPTER 2 Exegesis: The Methodology of Contextualism; CHAPTER 3 The Instability of Context Shifting Arguments; CHAPTER 4 Diagnosis: Why Context Shifting Arguments are Misused; CHAPTER 5 The Instability of Incompleteness Arguments; CHAPTER 6 Digressions: Binding and Hidden Indexicals; CHAPTER 7 Objections to Radical Contextualism (I): Fails Context Sensitivity Tests; CHAPTER 8 Objections to Radical Contextualism (II): Makes Communication Impossible; CHAPTER 9 Objections to Radical Contextualism (III): Internal Inconsistency.