Subjectivity and perspective in truth-theoretic semantics /

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This work explores linguistic and philosophical issues presented by sentences expressing personal taste, such as Roller coasters are fun, and examines how truth-theoretic semantics can account for expressions of this type. It provides a detailed and explicit formal grammar paired with semantic analy...

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Subjectivity, disagreement, and content --
goal: a truth-theoretic semantics for sentences expressing subjective judgment --
Matters of fact and matters of opinion --
Subjectivity as relative truth --
Context, content, and denotation --
Homomorphic interpretation and differentiation of content --
Dismissing the easy alternatives --
Indexical analyses --
Quantificational analyses --
Absolutism and ignorance --
Expressivism --
Metalinguistic and metacontextual conflict --
Setting the syntactic and semantic stage --
Syntactic assumptions --
Pronouns, names, and anaphora --
Common nouns, quantification, and binding --
Negation and contradiction --
Intensionality --
Notes on the grammar of time and space --
Tense --
Spatial deixis --
Basic relativist semantics --
judge parameter --
Revising the grammar --
Extension to taste expressions --
Truth in a relativist semantics --
Derelativization in the object language --
"Hidden" and "disguised" elements --
Phonological reduction --
Null elements in syntax --
Unarticulated constituents --
Constructional indexicality --
Sublexical and compound indexicality --
Indexical and quantificational interpretations of hidden elements --
Conclusion --
Pragmatics of truth assessment --
Contexts of use and parameter values --
Contexts of assessment and parameter values --
Adopting a stance --
Truth assessment and the adicity of true --
Exocentricity and indexicality --
Acentric stances --
Attitude predicates in relativist semantics --
Stance and belief --
Factives, relativism, and speaker commitment --
Infinitival clauses and time reference --
Centered attitudes and control of infinitival subjects --
Effective centering without PRO --
De se belief and autocentric truth assessment --
Against non-indexical contextualism --
Assertion and other speech acts --
Assertion, norms, and portrayal as true --
Assertion, conversation, and context change --
Why assert? --
Questions --
Between fact and opinion --
Aesthetic judgment and refinement of taste --
Contingent futures --
Epistemic modality --
Non-taste candidates for relativism: scalar cut-offs, sufficiency, and derogation --
Reliability, imagination, and the functional motivation for relativism --
evolutionary fable --
Space and logical space --
Reliability and traversable dimensions --
Reliability-based content --
From reliability to truth.
1. Verfasser:
Lasersohn, Peter
Format:
Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:
Englisch
Veröffentlicht:
Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2017.
Ausgabe:
First edition.
Zusammenfassung:
This work explores linguistic and philosophical issues presented by sentences expressing personal taste, such as Roller coasters are fun, and examines how truth-theoretic semantics can account for expressions of this type. It provides a detailed and explicit formal grammar paired with semantic analysis and pragmatic theory.
Umfang:
1 online resource (xviii, 274 pages) : illustrations (black and white).
Anmerkungen:
This edition previously issued in print: 2016.
Zielpublikum:
Specialized.
Bibliografie:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
0-19-183189-1
0-19-250804-0
Schlagworte:
Cognitive grammar.
Discourse analysis.
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