Pragmatics, truth and underspecification : towards an atlas of meaning /
Pragmatics, truth and underspecification : towards an atlas of meaning /
edited by Ken Turner, Laurence Horn.
- 1 online resource (xviii, 342 pages)
- Current research in the semantics/pragmatics interface ; v. 34 .
- Current Research in the Semantics / Pragmatics Interface 34. Language and Linguistics E-Books Online, Collection 2018, ISBN: 9789004328068. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Front Matter -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- An Underspecified Preface -- On the Landscape of Negation -- An (Abridged) Atlas of Negation: Polar Landscape in an Era of Climate Change / Dispelling the Cloud of Unknowing: More on the Syntactic Nature of Neg Raising / Presuppositions, Negation, and Existence / More Ado about Nothing: On the Typology of Negative Indefinites / On Sense-Generality and the Semantics/Pragmatics Landscape -- Distinguishing Ambiguity from Underspecificity / Metaphor, Minimalism, and Semantic Generality: Seeing Things in Context / A Radically Pragmatic Account of Number Words and the Reversibility of Scales / Utterances and Expressions in Semantics and Logic / On Grammar, Inference, and Truth -- Grammar as Procedures: Language, Interaction, and the Predictive Turn / Illusory Inferences in a Question-Based Theory of Reasoning / A Commitment-Theoretic Account of Moore’s Paradox / Remarks on Davidson’s Polymorphous Concept of Truth and Its Role in a Theory of Meaning / Laurence R. Horn -- Chris Collins and Paul Postal -- Barbara Abbott -- Johan van der Auwera and Lauren Van Alsenoy -- Una Stojnić , Matthew Stone and Ernie Lepore -- Michiel Leezenberg -- Jerrold Sadock -- David Braun -- Ruth Kempson and Ronnie Cann -- Philipp Koralus and Salvador Mascarenhas -- Jack Woods -- Ken Turner.
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The concept of meaning, since Frege initiated the linguistic turn in 1884, has been the subject of numerous theories, hypotheses, methodologies and distinctions. One distinction of considerable strategic value relates to the location of meaning: some aspects of meaning can be found in language and are modelled with semantic values of various kinds; some aspects of meaning can be found in communicative processes and are modelled with pragmatic inferences of one sort or another. One hypothesis of great heuristic utility concerns the relationship that is assumed between the semantic and the pragmatic. This collection of especially commissioned papers examines current thinking on the plausible nature of the semantic, the possible character of the pragmatic and the mechanics of their intersection.
9789004365445
10.1163/9789004365445 DOI
Pragmatics.
Truth.
Underspecification (Linguistics)
Meaning (Philosophy)
Language and languages--Philosophy.
P99.4.P72 / P73 2018
401/.4
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Front Matter -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- An Underspecified Preface -- On the Landscape of Negation -- An (Abridged) Atlas of Negation: Polar Landscape in an Era of Climate Change / Dispelling the Cloud of Unknowing: More on the Syntactic Nature of Neg Raising / Presuppositions, Negation, and Existence / More Ado about Nothing: On the Typology of Negative Indefinites / On Sense-Generality and the Semantics/Pragmatics Landscape -- Distinguishing Ambiguity from Underspecificity / Metaphor, Minimalism, and Semantic Generality: Seeing Things in Context / A Radically Pragmatic Account of Number Words and the Reversibility of Scales / Utterances and Expressions in Semantics and Logic / On Grammar, Inference, and Truth -- Grammar as Procedures: Language, Interaction, and the Predictive Turn / Illusory Inferences in a Question-Based Theory of Reasoning / A Commitment-Theoretic Account of Moore’s Paradox / Remarks on Davidson’s Polymorphous Concept of Truth and Its Role in a Theory of Meaning / Laurence R. Horn -- Chris Collins and Paul Postal -- Barbara Abbott -- Johan van der Auwera and Lauren Van Alsenoy -- Una Stojnić , Matthew Stone and Ernie Lepore -- Michiel Leezenberg -- Jerrold Sadock -- David Braun -- Ruth Kempson and Ronnie Cann -- Philipp Koralus and Salvador Mascarenhas -- Jack Woods -- Ken Turner.
Available to subscribing member institutions only.
The concept of meaning, since Frege initiated the linguistic turn in 1884, has been the subject of numerous theories, hypotheses, methodologies and distinctions. One distinction of considerable strategic value relates to the location of meaning: some aspects of meaning can be found in language and are modelled with semantic values of various kinds; some aspects of meaning can be found in communicative processes and are modelled with pragmatic inferences of one sort or another. One hypothesis of great heuristic utility concerns the relationship that is assumed between the semantic and the pragmatic. This collection of especially commissioned papers examines current thinking on the plausible nature of the semantic, the possible character of the pragmatic and the mechanics of their intersection.
9789004365445
10.1163/9789004365445 DOI
Pragmatics.
Truth.
Underspecification (Linguistics)
Meaning (Philosophy)
Language and languages--Philosophy.
P99.4.P72 / P73 2018
401/.4