Compositionality, Context and Semantic Values Essays in Honour of Ernie Lepore

Name: Compositionality, Context and Semantic Values Essays in Honour of Ernie Lepore
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ISBN: 9781402083099

ISBN-10: 1402083092

ISBN-13: 9781402083099

Edition: 2009

Authors: Christopher Viger, Robert J. Stainton

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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? These are the central questions of this important volume of new philosophical essays in honour of Ernie Lepore.

Book details

List price: $109.99
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: Springer Netherlands
Publication date: 11/25/2008
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 282
Size: 6.14" wide x 9.25" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 2.882
Language: English




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



Index