Oratio Obliqua, Oratio Recta An Essay on Metarepresentation

Name: Oratio Obliqua, Oratio Recta An Essay on Metarepresentation
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ISBN: 9780262681162

ISBN-10: 0262681161

ISBN-13: 9780262681162

Edition: 2000

Authors: Franï¿½ois Recanati

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Among the entities that can be mentally or linguistically represented are mental and linguistic representations themselves. That is, we can think and talk about speech and thought. This phenomenon is known as metarepresentation. An example is "Authors believe that people read books." In this book Franccedil;ois Recanati discusses the structure of metarepresentation from a variety of perspectives. According to him, metarepresentations have a dual structure: their content includes the content of the object-representation (people reading books) as well as the "meta" part (the authors' belief). Rejecting the view that the object representation is mentioned rather than used, Recanati claims…

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List price: $7.75
Copyright year: 2000
Publisher: MIT Press
Publication date: 8/28/2000
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 378
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.00" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.342
Language: English



Preface



Iconicity



Three Principles



'That'-Clauses as Singular Terms



Metarepresentational Operators



Simulation 1: Circumstance-Shifting



Simulation and Beyond



Austinian Semantics



The Double Nature of Situations



World-Shifting



Opacity



Introduction



Metarepresentational Ambiguities



Opaque Uses, Transparent Mentions



Metarepresentational Opacity: An Innocent Account



Context-Shifting and Oratio Recta



Context-Shifting



Oratio Recta



Varieties of Semi-Quotation



Simulation 2: Context-Shifting as Pretense



Metafictional Statements



Untransposed Indexicals in (Free) Indirect Speech



Partial Pretense



Deference and Metarepresentation



Deferential Belief



Echoic Uses: A Unified Account



Mixed Quotation and Opacity


Notes


References


Index