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Title The architecture of context and context-sensitivity : perspectives from philosophy, linguistics and logic / Tadeusz Ciecierski, Paweł Grabarczyk, editors
Published Cham, Switzerland : Springer, [2020]
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Description 1 online resource (x, 319 pages) : illustrations
Series Studies in linguistics and philosophy ; volume 103
Studies in linguistics and philosophy ; v. 103.
Contents Utterance and context / Maria de Ponte, Kepa Korta, John Perry -- Indirectness and intentions in metasemantics / Michael Glanzberg -- Speaker intentions and objective metasemantics / Jeffrey C. King -- Speakers, hearers and demonstrative reference / Palle Leth -- How to say when / Agustin Vincente & Dan Zeman -- Distributed utterances / Mark McCullagh -- Demonstratives in first order logic / Geoff Georgii -- De se as variable binding: on context sensitivity in utterance reports / Joan Gimeno-Simó -- How can "I" refer to me? banishing monsters at the source / David Kashtan -- Compositionality in truth conditional pragmatics / Adrain Briciu -- Occasion sensitivity and what is said / Claudia Picazo Jaque -- Context and communicative success / Joey Pollock -- Truth and context / Gerald Vision -- Subsentential speech acts: a situated contextualist account / Odrowąż-Sypniewska -- Some constraint on contextualism about modals / Daniel Skibra
Summary "This volume addresses foundational issues of context-dependence and indexicality, which are at the center of the current debate within the philosophy of language. Topics include the scope of context-dependency, the nature of content and the character of input data of cognitive processes relevant for the interpretation of utterances. There's also coverage of the role of beliefs and intentions as contextual factors, as well as the validity of arguments in context-sensitive languages. The contributions consider foundational issues regarding context-sensitivity from three different, yet related, perspectives on the phenomenon of context-dependence: representational, structural, and functional. The contributors not only address the representational, structural and/or functional problems separately but also study their mutual connections, thus furthering the debate and bringing competing approaches closer to unification and consensus. This text appeals to students and researchers within the field. This is a very useful collection of essays devoted to the roles of context in the study of language. Its essays provide a useful overview of the current debates on this topic, and they put forth novel contributions that will undoubtedly be of relevance for the development of all areas in philosophy and linguistics interested in the notion of context. Stefano Predelli Department of Philosophy, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK."--Publisher's description
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from resource home page (ProQuest Ebook Central viewed April 6, 2020)
Subject Context (Linguistics)
Semantics (Philosophy)
Context (Linguistics)
Semantics (Philosophy)
Form Electronic book
Author Ciecierski, Tadeusz, editor
Grabarczyk, Paweł, editor
ISBN 9783030344856
3030344851