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Context-sensitivity and semantic minimalism : new essays on semantics and pragmatics / edited by Gerhard Preyer and Georg Peter

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Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007.
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1 online resource (viii, 363 pages)
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Preyer, Gerhard and Peter, Georg
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Language Note
English.
Contents
Semantics and pragmatics : some central issues / Herman Cappelen -- Content, context, and composition / Peter Pagin and Francis Jeffry Pelletier -- A little sensitivity goes a long way / Kenneth A. Taylor -- Radical minimalism, moderate contextualism / Kepa Korta and John Perry -- How and why to be a moderate contextualist / Ishani Maitra -- Moderately sensitive semantics / Sarah-Jane Leslie -- Sense and insensibility or where minimalism meets contextualism / Eros Corazza and Jérôme Dokic -- Prudent semantics meets wanton speech act pluralism / Elisabeth Camp -- Meanings, propositions, context, and semantical underdeterminacy / Jay David Atlas -- Semantic minimalism and nonindexical contextualism / John MacFarlane -- Minimal (disagreement about) semantics / Lenny Clapp -- Minimal propositions, cognitive safety mechanisms, and psychological reality / Reinaldo Elugardo -- Minimalism and modularity / Philip Robbins -- Minimalism, psychological reality, meaning, and use / Henry Jackman -- Minimalism versus contextualism in semantics / Emma Borg.
Summary
"This book represents a continuation of the research project in philosophy of language and semantics represented in the journal "Protosociology" at the J.W. Goethe-University, Frankfurt am Main."--Editors' preface
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9780191526633 (electronic bk.)
0191526630 (electronic bk.)
1281149195
9781281149190
9786611149192
6611149198
9780199213320 (alk. paper)
0199213321 (alk. paper)
9780199213313 (alk. paper)
0199213313 (alk. paper)
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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