UID:
almafu_9959328507402883
Format:
1 online resource (xii, 219 pages) :
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illustrations
ISBN:
9780470755792
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0470755792
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1405144785
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9781405144780
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9781405186278
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1405186275
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9781405126748
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1405126744
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9781405126755
,
1405126752
Content:
Insensitive Semantics is an overview of and contribution to the debates about how to accommodate context sensitivity within a theory of human communication, investigating the effects of context on communicative interaction and, as a corollary, what a context of utterance is and what it is to be in one. Provides detailed and wide-ranging overviews of the central positions and arguments surrounding contextualismAddresses broad and varied aspects of the distinction between the semantic and non-semantic content of languageDefends a distinctive and explanatorily powerful combination of semantic min.
Note:
Preface; Acknowledgments; CHAPTER 1 Overview; CHAPTER 2 Exegesis: The Methodology of Contextualism; CHAPTER 3 The Instability of Context Shifting Arguments; CHAPTER 4 Diagnosis: Why Context Shifting Arguments are Misused; CHAPTER 5 The Instability of Incompleteness Arguments; CHAPTER 6 Digressions: Binding and Hidden Indexicals; CHAPTER 7 Objections to Radical Contextualism (I): Fails Context Sensitivity Tests; CHAPTER 8 Objections to Radical Contextualism (II): Makes Communication Impossible; CHAPTER 9 Objections to Radical Contextualism (III): Internal Inconsistency.
Additional Edition:
Print version: Cappelen, Herman. Insensitive semantics. Malden, MA : Blackwell Pub., 2005 ISBN 1405126744
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781405126748
Language:
English
Keywords:
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DOI:
10.1002/9780470755792
URL:
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/book/10.1002/9780470755792
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https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/book/10.1002/9780470755792
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https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/book/10.1002/9780470755792
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