Pragmatics Truth And Language

Author : R.M. Martin
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9400994575
Total Pages : 325 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Pragmatics, Truth, and Language written by R.M. Martin and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Richard Martin's thoroughly philosophical as well as thoroughly tech nical investigations deserve continued and appreciative study. His sympathy and good cheer do not obscure his rigorous standard, nor do his contemporary sophistication and intellectual independence obscure his critical congeniality toward classical and medieval philosophers. So he deals with old and new; his papers, in his neat self-descriptions, consist of reminders, criticisms, and constructions. They might also be seen as studies in the understanding of truth, ramifying as widely in mathematics, logic, and epistemology as well as metaphysics, as such understanding has required. For us it is a pleasant occasion to welcome Richard Martin's new Boston Studies, and to note his continuously con collection to the structive and critical interventions at the Boston Colloquium for the of Science. Philosophy Boston University Center for the R. S. COHEN Philosophy and History of Science M. W. WARTOFSKY July 1979 vii TABLE OF CONTENTS EDITORIAL PREFACE vii PREFACE xi ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS xv I. Truth and Its Illicit Surrogates II. Some Reminders concerning Truth, Satisfaction, and Reference 17 III. On Disquotation and Intensionality 30 IV. On Truth, Belief, and Modes of Description 42 V. The Pragmatics of Self-Reference 55 VI. On Suppositio and Denotation 72 VII. Of Time and the Null Individual 82 VIII. Existence and Logical Form 95 IX. Tense, Aspect, and Modality 110 X. Of 'Of' 130 XI. Events and Actions: Brand and Kim 144 XII. Why I Am Not a Montague Grammarian 160 XIII.

Author : François Recanati
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780191710223
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Truth-conditional Pragmatics written by François Recanati and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recanati argues against the traditional understanding of the semantics/pragmatics divide. Through half a dozen case studies, he shows that 'pragmatic modulation' interacts with the grammar-driven process of semantic composition. As a result, what an utterance says cannot be neatly separated from what the speaker means.

Author : Savas L. Tsohatzidis
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110687534
Total Pages : 355 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Truth, Force, and Knowledge in Language written by Savas L. Tsohatzidis and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2020-08-24 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book collects twenty-five of the author's essays, each of which addresses a descriptive or a foundational issue that arises at the interface between linguistic semantics and pragmatics, on the one hand, and the philosophy of language, on the other. Arranged into three interconnected parts (I. Matters of Meaning and Truth; II. Matters of Meaning and Force; III. Knowledge Matters), the essays suggest that some key topics in the above-mentioned fields have often been approached in ways that considerably underestimate their empirical or conceptual complexity, and attempt to delineate perspectives from which, and conditions under which, an improved understanding of those topics could be sought. The book will be of interest to linguists working in semantics and pragmatics, and to philosophers working in the philosophy of language and in epistemology.

Author : Savas L. Tsohatzidis
Publisher : ISSN
ISBN 13 : 9783110687507
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Truth, Force, and Knowledge in Language written by Savas L. Tsohatzidis and published by ISSN. This book was released on 2020 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book collects 25 of the author's essays at the interface between linguistic semantics and pragmatics on the one hand and the philosophy of language on the other. The essays suggest that some key topics in the above-mentioned fields have often b

Author : Ken Turner
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789004341999
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Pragmatics, Truth and Underspecification written by Ken Turner and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of especially commissioned papers presents state of the art research on semantics, pragmatics, presupposition, negation, existence, utterance semantics, metaphor, erotetic reasoning, lexical meaning, the pragmatics of number terms, theories of truth and Moore's Paradox.

Author : Charles Travis
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9027225125
Total Pages : 171 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The True and the False written by Charles Travis and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 1981-01-01 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pragmatics often begins by supposing that specifying and describing truth bearers is a proper task for semantics. The main thrust of the present work is to show why truth and truth bearers lie essentially beyond the descriptive reach of semantics, and to outline a theory of truth bearers as a proper and fundamental task for pragmatics. It is also common for treatments, or definitions of truth to be confused with substantive theories about truth bearers, with a variety of unfortunate results. This monograph suggests a way of separating these tasks, and shows how many problems are thus avoided. Some emphasis is placed on the generally universal — i.e., nonlanguage-specific — character of pragmatic topics, and of truth. These issues occasion a discussion of semantic paradoxes, and of several relativities in the notion of truth.

Author : François Recanati
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 9780199226986
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Truth-Conditional Pragmatics written by François Recanati and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2010-11-11 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recanati argues against the traditional understanding of the semantics/pragmatics divide. Through half a dozen case studies, he shows that 'pragmatic modulation' interacts with the grammar-driven process of semantic composition. As a result, what an utterance says cannot be neatly separated from what the speaker means.

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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004365443
Total Pages : 422 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Pragmatics, Truth and Underspecification written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2018-06-12 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of especially commissioned papers presents state of the art research on semantics, pragmatics, presupposition, negation, existence, utterance semantics, metaphor, erotetic reasoning, lexical meaning, the pragmatics of number terms, theories of truth and Moore’s Paradox.

Author : Stephen C. Levinson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521294140
Total Pages : 442 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Pragmatics written by Stephen C. Levinson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1983-06-09 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An integrative and lucid analysis of central topics in the field of linguistic pragmatics deixis, implicature, presupposition, speed acts, and conversational structure.

Author : Alessandro Capone
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 331901014X
Total Pages : 554 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Perspectives on Linguistic Pragmatics written by Alessandro Capone and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-11-26 with total page 554 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume provides insight into linguistic pragmatics from the perspective of linguists who have been influenced by philosophy. Theory of Mind and perspectives on point of view are presented along with other topics including: semantics vs. semiotics, clinical pragmatics, explicatures, cancellability of explicatures, interactive language use, reference, common ground, presupposition, definiteness, logophoricity and point of view in connection with pragmatic inference, pragmemes and language games, pragmatics and artificial languages, the mechanism of the form/content correlation from a pragmatic point of view, amongst other issues relating to language use. Relevance Theory is introduced as an important framework, allowing readers to familiarize themselves with technical details and linguistic terminology. This book follows on from the first volume: both contain the work of world renowned experts who discuss theories relevant to pragmatics. Here, the relationship between semantics and pragmatics is explored: conversational explicatures are a way to bridge the gap in semantics between underdetermined logical forms and full propositional content. These volumes are written in an accessible way and work well both as a stimulus to further research and as a guide to less experienced researchers and students who would like to know more about this vast, complex, and difficult field of inquiry.