Compositionality, Context and Semantic Values: Essays in Honour of Ernie Lepore
Author:   Robert J. Stainton ,  Christopher Viger
Publisher:   Springer
Edition:   2009 ed.
Volume:   85
ISBN:  

9789048178384


Pages:   282
Publication Date:   28 October 2010
Format:   Paperback
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Compositionality, Context and Semantic Values: Essays in Honour of Ernie Lepore


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Are natural languages genuinely compositional? What roles does context play in linguistic communication, and by what means? In particular, does context interfere with the compositional determination of truth conditions? What meanings should theorists assign to sentences if compositionality is to be retained? These are the central questions of this important volume of new philosophical essays in honour of Ernie Lepore.

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Author:   Robert J. Stainton ,  Christopher Viger
Publisher:   Springer
Imprint:   Springer
Edition:   2009 ed.
Volume:   85
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   0.456kg
ISBN:  

9789048178384


ISBN 10:   904817838
Pages:   282
Publication Date:   28 October 2010
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

Compositionality.- “If”, “Unless”, and Quantification.- Bridging the Paratactic Gap.- Context and “What Is Said”.- On the Epistemic Utility of What is Said.- In Defense of Context Shifting Arguments.- Contextualism, Skepticism and Objectivity.- On Failing to Capture some (or even all) of what is Communicated.- Semantic Values.- The Disunity of Truth.- Descriptions, Negation, and Focus.- Evidentials: Some Preliminary Distinctions.- The Direct Expression of Metaphorical Content.- The Empirical Case for Bare Demonstratives in Vision.

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