Meaning, Context and Methodology / / ed. by Sarah-Jane Conrad, Klaus Petrus.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus DeG Package 2017 Part 1
• MitwirkendeR: Aeschbacher, Dominik,; Bezuidenhout, Anne,; Conrad, Sarah-Jane,; Gauker, Christopher,; Horowitz, Damon,; Imhof, Silvan,; Kompa, Nikola,; Korta, Kepa,; Perry, John,; Petrus, Klaus,; Predelli, Stefano,; Riegelnik, Štefan,; Zeman, Dan,
• HerausgeberIn: Conrad, Sarah-Jane,; Petrus, Klaus,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2017]; ©2017
• Year of Publication: 2017
• Language: English
• Series: Mouton Series in Pragmatics [MSP] , 19
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (VI, 231 p.)

What methodological impact does Contextualism have on the philosophy of language? This collection sets out to provide some answers. The authors in this volume question three ultimately connected assumptions of the philosophy of language. The first assumption relates to the predominant status of refe...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Introduction
• Part 1: The contextual turn and the case for reference, truth-conditions and meaning
• Open texture and schematicity as arguments for non-referential semantics
• Full but not saturated: The myth of mandatory primary pragmatic processes
• How to get lost in context: Searle on context, content and literal meaning
• Meaning and interpretation
• The role of context in semantics: A Relevance Theory perspective
• Part 2: The contextual turn and the case for language use
• Boo semantics: Radical nonfactualism and non truth-conditional meaning
• Metaphor and mercurial content
• Part 3: The contextual turn and the case of analysis
• Context, two-dimensional semantics and conceptual analysis
• The use of the Binding Argument in the debate about location
• Slices of meaning: Levels of analysis and the unity of understanding
• Contributors
• Index