Semantics versus Pragmatics

by Zoltan Gendler Szabo (Editor)

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

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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