Cappelen, Herman
Insensitive Semantics: A Defense of Semantic Minimalism and Speech Act Pluralism
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 philosophy of language and linguistics, but which arise in epistemology, metaphysics, and moral philosophy as well
Keywords: PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / General PHI009000
- Author(s)
- Cappelen, Herman
- Lepore, Ernest
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons, Inc.
- Publication year
- 2008
- Language
- en
- Edition
- 1
- Page amount
- 219 pages
- Category
- Philosophy
- Format
- Ebook
- eISBN (PDF)
- 9780470754917
- Printed ISBN
- 9781405126748