Context-Sensitivity and Semantic Minimalism:New Essays on Semantics and Pragmatics

Download or read book Context-Sensitivity and Semantic Minimalism:New Essays on Semantics and Pragmatics written by Gerhard Preyer and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2007-10-25 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fifteen specially written papers examine the ways in which the content of what we say is dependent on the context in which we say it. At the centre of the current debate on this subject is Cappelen and Lepore's claim that context-sensitivity in language is best captured by a combination of semantic minimalism and speech act pluralism. Using this theory as their starting point, the contributors to this volume develop a variety of different views about the role of context incommunication, and reveal its wide-ranging implications for all issues in the philosophy of language and linguistics.