Context and Communication
Author:   Herman Cappelen (University of Oslo / University of St Andrews) ,  Josh Dever (University of Texas at Austin)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
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9780198769910


Pages:   212
Publication Date:   07 April 2016
Format:   Hardback
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Author:   Herman Cappelen (University of Oslo / University of St Andrews) ,  Josh Dever (University of Texas at Austin)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 14.50cm , Height: 1.70cm , Length: 22.20cm
Weight:   0.380kg
ISBN:  

9780198769910


ISBN 10:   0198769911
Pages:   212
Publication Date:   07 April 2016
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Introduction Part I: Context Sensitivity: Variability vs. Stability 1: Contextual Variability 2: Stability Across Contexts 3: Some Strategies for Reconciling Stability and Variability Part II: Theories of Context Sensitivity 4: What is a Theory of Meaning? 5: Character and Content 6: Indexed Truth Accounts: An Alternative to Kaplan 7: The Problem of Rigidity: Double-Indexing and Monsters 8: The Problem of Samesaying: Two Strategies Part III: contexts: what they are and how we create them 9: What Are Contexts? 10: More on Contextual Ingredients 11: How speech creates contexts: negotiation and accommodation

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Cappelen and Dever offer a clear, sustained treatment of one area in the contemporary philosophy of language, namely, the interrelation of linguistic meaning, truth, and the multiplicity of contexts in which language occurs...the volume is a lively and accessible introduction-and beyond-to context and communication...Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty. -- <em>CHOICE</em>


Cappelen and Dever offer a clear, sustained treatment of one area in the contemporary philosophy of language, namely, the interrelation of linguistic meaning, truth, and the multiplicity of contexts in which language occurs...the volume is a lively and accessible introduction-and beyond-to context and communication...Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty. -- CHOICE


Author Information

Herman Cappelen is a professor of philosophy at the universities of Oslo and St Andrews. He is a Research Director at CSMN (in Oslo), and the Editor-in-Chief of Inquiry. He is the author of six books and many papers. Josh Dever is a professor of philosophy at the University of Texas at Austin and a professorial fellow at the Arche research centre at the University of St Andrews. He is the author of many papers in philosophy of language and logic, and the co-author with Herman Cappelen of The Inessential Indexical. He is also an associate editor of Semantics and Pragmatics.

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