Insensitive Semantics: A Defense of Semantic Minimalism and Speech Act Pluralism

Cappelen, Herman; Lepore, Ernest

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 contextualism
• Addresses broad and varied aspects of the distinction between the semantic and non-semantic content of language
• Defends a distinctive and explanatorily powerful combination of semantic minimalism and speech act pluralism
• Confronts core problems which not only run to the heart of philosophy of language and linguistics, but which arise in epistemology, metaphysics, and moral philosophy as well

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Published by: Wiley-Blackwell

Publication Date: 2005-01-14

Format: Paperback

ISBN-13: 9781405126755

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Dimensions: 231.1cm x154.9cm

Pages: 232.0