Pragmatics, truth and underspecification : : towards an atlas of meaning / / edited by Ken Turner, Laurence Horn.
The concept of meaning, since Frege initiated the linguistic turn in 1884, has been the subject of numerous theories, hypotheses, methodologies and distinctions. One distinction of considerable strategic value relates to the location of meaning: some aspects of meaning can be found in language and a...
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| Superior document: | Current Research in the Semantics/Pragmatics Interface ; Volume 34 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, [2018] ©2018 |
| Year of Publication: | 2018 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Current research in the semantics/pragmatics interface ;
Volume 34. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (422 pages). |
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Table of Contents:
- An (abridged) atlas of negation: Polar landscape in an era of climate change / Larry Horn
- Dispelling the cloud of unknowing: More on the syntactic nature of neg raising / Chris Collins, Paul Postal
- Presuppositions, negation, and existence / Barbara Abbott
- More Ado about nothing: On the typology of negative indefinites / Johan van der Auwera, Lauren van Alsenoy
- Distinguishing ambiguity from underspecificity / Una Stojnic, Matthew Stone, Ernie Lepore
- Metaphor, minimalism, and semantic generality: Seeing things in context / Michiel Leezenberg
- A radically pragmatic account of number words and the reversibility of scales / Jerrold Sadock
- Utterances and expressions in semantics and logic / David Braun
- Grammar as procedures: Language, interaction, and the predictive turn / Ruth Kempson, Ronnie Cann
- Illusory inferences in a question-based theory of reasoning / Philipp Koralus, Salvador Mascarenhas
- A commitment-theoretic account of Moore's Paradox / Philipp Koralus, Salvador Mascarenhas
- Remarks on Davidson's polymorphous concept of truth and its role in a theory of meaning / Ken Turner.