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Insensitive Semantics: A Defense of Semantic Minimalism and Speech Act Pluralism
Herman Cappelen
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Paperback. Presents an overview of 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. Num Pages: 232 pages, 0. BIC Classification: HPK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 154 x 11. Weight in Grams: 268.
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 contextualism
- Addresses broad and varied aspects of the distinction between the semantic and non-semantic content of language
- Defends a distinctive and explanatorily powerful combination of semantic minimalism and speech act pluralism
- Confronts core problems which not only run to the heart of ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
232
Condition
New
Number of Pages
232
Place of Publication
Hoboken, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781405126755
SKU
V9781405126755
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99-50
About Herman Cappelen
Herman Cappelen is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Vassar College and the University of Oslo. He has published extensively in philosophy of language and mind, including articles in Noûs, Mind, Mind & Language, Analysis, and Synthese. Ernie Lepore is Professor of Philosophy at Rutgers University. He is author of Meaning and Argument (revised edition, ... Read more
Reviews for Insensitive Semantics: A Defense of Semantic Minimalism and Speech Act Pluralism
“This book is an ingenious defense of two positions not widely thought to be compatible: truth-conditional semantics and semantic minimalism. Cappelen and Lepore’s highly controversial views are already, and will continue to be, at the center of inquiry into the nature of linguistic communication.” Jason Stanley, University of Michigan “Cappelen and Lepore have performed ... Read more