Language in context : selected essays /

Natural languages all contain constructions the interpretation of which depends upon the situation in which they are used. In Language and Context, Jason Stanley presents a series of essays which develop a theory of how the situation in which we speak interacts with the words we use to help produce...

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Main Author: Stanley, Jason
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007.
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Online Access:CONNECT
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction; 1. Context and Logical Form; 2. On Quantifier Domain Restriction; 3. Nominal Restriction; 4. Semantics, Pragmatics, and the Role of Semantic Content; 5. Making it Articulated; 6. Semantics in Context; 7. Review of Fran©ʹois Recanati's Literal Meaning; Postscript; Index.