Semantics versus Pragmatics

by Zoltan Gendler Szabo (Editor)

Overview

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Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780191514395
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	01/06/2005
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	987 KB

About the Author

Cornell University

Table of Contents

• Introduction
• 1: Kent Bach: Context ex Machina
• 2: Herman Cappelen and Ernie Lepore: Radical and Moderate Pragmatics: Does Meaning Determine Truth Conditions?
• 3: Jeffrey C. King and Jason Stanley: Semantics, Pragmatics, and the Role of Semantic Content
• 4: Nathan Salmon: Two Concepts of Semantics
• 5: Michael Glanzberg: Focus: A Case Study on the Semantics/Pragmatics Boundary
• 6: Stephen Neale: Pragmatism and Pronouns
• 7: F. Recanati: Deixis and Anaphora
• 8: Mandy Simons: Presupposition and Relevance
• 9: Scott Soames: Naming and Asserting
• 10: Robert J. Stainton: In Defence of Non-Sentential Assertion

Editorial Reviews

"Preceded by an informative and accessible introduction...The book is important because the papers it contains reflect a wide range of views concerning...pragmatics and semantics...[It] is a valuable collection...challenges are addressed with insight and ingenuity."—Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews

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