Words and thoughts : subsentences, ellipsis, and the philosophy of language /

It is a near truism of philosophy of language that sentences are prior to words - that they are the only things that fundamentally have meaning. This work interrogates this idea, drawing on a body of evidence to argue that speakers can and do use mere words, not sentences, to communicate complex tho...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Stainton, Robert
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Language Notes:	English.
Published:	Oxford : New York : Clarendon Press ; Published in the United States by Oxford University Press, 2006.
Subjects:	Language and languages > Philosophy. Speech acts (Linguistics) Grammar, Comparative and general > Ellipsis. Langage et langues > Philosophie. Actes de parole. Ellipse (Linguistique) LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > General. Grammar, Comparative and general > Ellipsis Language and languages > Philosophy Ellipse > Linguistik Satz Sprechakt Taalfilosofie. Taalhandelingen. Ellipse. Grammaire comparée et générale. Ellipse <Linguistik> Humaniora > Filosofi. Electronic books.
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Table of Contents:

The appearances and some background
Introduction : the appearances, and what they might mean
Further background issues
The genuineness issue
Not a full-fledged speech act?
Extra-grammatical maneuvers
Semantic ellipsis
Syntactic ellipsis
A divide-and-conquer strategy
A positive representational-pragmatic view
Implications
Language : thought relations
Sentence primacy
Sentences, assertion, and the semantics-pragmatics boundary.