Discourse contextualism : a framework for contextualist semantics and pragmatics /

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Alex Silk investigates the role of context in the meaning and use of natural language. Discourse Contextualism provides a systematic account of the distinctive ways in which speakers use context-sensitive expressions to coordinate their attitudes and negotiate about how the context should evolve.

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Framework for contextualist semantics and pragmatics
Introduction: CR-Expressions and Discourse Contextualism --
Discourse Contextualism: An Application to Epistemic Modals --
Accommodation and Negotiation with Context-Sensitive Expressions --
Epistemic Modals and Discourse Disagreement --
Insufficient Replies --
Varieties of Linguistic Denial. Metacontextual Negotiation --
Epistemic Modals in a Language Game --
Recap --
Accommodation and Negotiation with Paradigm Context-Sensitive Expressions --
Way Forward --
Managing the Context: Toward Discourse Contextualism --
Discourse Contextualism I: Epistemic Modals in Discourse --
Components 1 and 2: From Formal Semantics to Interpretive Constraints --
Component 3: Using Epistemic Modals. The Basic Account --
Features --
Justified Use --
Locus of Disagreement --
Discourse-Oriented Effects --
Expressing States of Mind --
Expressive vs. Intuitively Contextualist Uses --
Anaphoric Properties. Contextual Underspecification --
More Data: Retraction and Eavesdroppers --
Retraction --
Eavesdroppers and Inter-Conversational Disagreement --
Aside: Presupposition and Epistemic Modals --
"Assuming" Values for Variables? --
Presupposition and Non-Monotonic Updates --
Presupposition of Commonality? --
Truth --
Discourse Contextualism II: How to Embed an Epistemic Modal --
Embedding Problems --
First-Order States of Mind --
Obligatory Shifting --
Epistemic Contradictions --
Inferences --
Factive Attitudes --
Embedding Solutions --
Aside: Contextualism and Relativist Content --
Challenge Revisited: Epistemic Modals and Paradigm Context-Sensitive Expressions --
Discourse Contextualism: Extensions --
Extension I: Deontic Modals --
Introduction --
Deontic Modals in Discourse --
Contextualism about Deontic Modals --
Agreeing and Disagreeing with Normative Language --
Discourse Contextualist Account --
Uncertainty and Indecision in Normative Inquiry --
Embedded Contexts and Normative Thought --
Attitudes and Attitude Ascriptions --
CR-Contradictions? --
Realism and Normative Truth --
Information-Sensitivity --
Extension II: Gradable Adjectives and Degree Vagueness --
Gradable Adjectives in Discourse --
Standards and Scoreboards --
Discourse Dynamics --
Attitude Ascriptions --
Vagueness as Contextual Indecision --
Sorites --
Vagueness, Meaning, and Use --
Logic, Metaphysics, and Epistemology of Vagueness --
Vagueness in Language and Thought --
Conclusion --
Beyond Gradable Adjectives --
Higher-Order Vagueness --
Vagueness and Degree Semantics --
Extension III: Predicates of Personal Taste and Evaluation --
Three Sources of Context-Sensitivity --
Matters of Taste in Discourse and Thought --
Vagueness with PPTs --
Adjectives of Normative and Epistemic Evaluation --
Taste and Normative Evaluation --
`Find' and "Subjectivity" --
Recap.
1. Verfasser:
Silk, Alex
Format:
Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:
Englisch
Veröffentlicht:
Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2016.
Ausgabe:
First edition.
Zusammenfassung:
Alex Silk investigates the role of context in the meaning and use of natural language. Discourse Contextualism provides a systematic account of the distinctive ways in which speakers use context-sensitive expressions to coordinate their attitudes and negotiate about how the context should evolve.
Umfang:
1 online resource (vii, 255 pages)
Anmerkungen:
Description based upon print version of record.
Bibliografie:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
0-19-182657-X
0-19-108652-5
Schlagworte:
Contextualism (Philosophy)
Discourse analysis.
Semantics.
Pragmatics.
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