Pragmatics, Truth and Underspecification

Towards an Atlas of Meaning

AvKen Peter Turner

Inbunden, Engelska, 2018

Del 34 i serien Current Research in the Semantics / Pragmatics Interface

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Beskrivning

The concept of meaning, since Frege initiated the linguistic turn in 1884, has been the subject of numerous theories, hypotheses, methodologies and distinctions. One distinction of considerable strategic value relates to the location of meaning: some aspects of meaning can be found in language and are modelled with semantic values of various kinds; some aspects of meaning can be found in communicative processes and are modelled with pragmatic inferences of one sort or another. One hypothesis of great heuristic utility concerns the relationship that is assumed between the semantic and the pragmatic. This collection of especially commissioned papers examines current thinking on the plausible nature of the semantic, the possible character of the pragmatic and the mechanics of their intersection.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2018-07-05
Mått:155 x 235 x 30 mm
Vikt:787 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Current Research in the Semantics / Pragmatics Interface
Antal sidor:402
Förlag:Brill
ISBN:9789004341999

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Mer om författaren

Ken Turner is Principal Lecturer in Linguistics and the Philosophy of Language at the University of Brighton. He is the editor of The Semantics/Pragmatics Interface from Different Points of View (CRiSPI 1) and Making Semantics Pragmatic (CRiSPI 24) as well as co-editor, with Klaus von Heusinger, of Where Semantics Meets Pragmatics (CRiSPI 16) and co-editor, with Marina Sbisà, of Pragmatics of Speech Actions (HoP2).Laurence Horn is Emeritus Professor of Linguistics and Philosophy at Yale. He is the author or (co-)editor of six books and over 100 articles on pragmatic theory, negation, lexical semantics, and linguistic variation, including A Natural History of Negation (1989/2001).Contributors are: Barbara Abbott, David Braun, Ronnie Cann, Chris Collins, Laurence Horn, Ruth Kempson, Philipp Koralus, Michiel Leezenberg, Ernie Lepore, Salvador Mascarenhas, Paul Postal, Una Stojnić, Matthew Stone, Jerrold Sadock, Ken Turner, Lauren van Alsenoy, Johan van der Auwera and Jack Woods.

Innehållsförteckning

An Underspecified PrefaceKen Turner and Larry HornPart 1 On the Landscape of Negation1 An (Abridged) Atlas of Negation: Polar Landscape in an Era of Climate ChangeLarry Horn2 Dispelling the Cloud of Unknowing: More on the Syntactic Nature of Neg RaisingChris Collins and Paul Postal3 Presuppositions, Negation, and ExistenceBarbara Abbott4 More Ado about nothing: On the Typology of Negative IndefinitesJohan van der Auwera and Lauren van AlsenoyPart 2 On Sense-Generality and the Semantics/Pragmatics Landscape5 Distinguishing Ambiguity from UnderspecificityUna Stojnic, Matthew Stone and Ernie Lepore6 Metaphor, Minimalism, and Semantic Generality: Seeing Things in ContextMichiel Leezenberg7 A Radically Pragmatic Account of Number Words and the Reversibility of ScalesJerrold Sadock8 Utterances and Expressions in Semantics and LogicDavid BraunPart 3 On Grammar, Inference, and Truth9 Grammar as Procedures: Language, Interaction, and the Predictive TurnRuth Kempson and Ronnie Cann10 Illusory Inferences in a Question-Based Theory of ReasoningPhilipp Koralus and Salvador Mascarenhas11 A Commitment-Theoretic Account of Moore’s ParadoxJack Woods12 Remarks on Davidson’s Polymorphous Concept of Truth and Its Role in a Theory of MeaningKen TurnerIndex