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Truth-Conditional Pragmatics

Truth-Conditional Pragmatics

by Francois Recanati
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Publication Date: 11/11/2010

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Francois Recanati argues against the traditional understanding of the semantics/pragmatics divide and puts forward a radical alternative. Through half a dozen case studies, he shows that what an utterance says cannot be neatly separated from what the speaker means. In particular, the speaker's meaning endows words with senses that are tailored to the situation of utterance and depart from the conventional meanings carried by the words in isolation. This
phenomenon of 'pragmatic modulation' must be taken into account in theorizing about semantic content, for it interacts with the grammar-driven process of semantic composition. Because of that interaction, Recanati argues, the content of a sentence always depends upon the context in which it is used. This claim
defines Contextualism, a view which has attracted considerable attention in recent years, and of which Recanati is one of the main proponents.
ISBN:
9780199226986
9780199226986
Category:
Philosophy of mind
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
11-11-2010
Language:
English
Publisher:
Oxford University Press
Country of origin:
United Kingdom
Pages:
334
Dimensions (mm):
234x162x19mm
Weight:
0.52kg

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