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Truth-conditional Pragmatics

by Francois Recanati (, Centre National De La Recherche Scientifique, Paris)

  • Hardback
  • 336 pages
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press
  • 15.8 x 23.4 x 2.6 cm

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For linguists and philosophy students exploring meaning

Clarifies the interplay between semantics and speaker meaning

You will deepen your understanding of language context

This book challenges the traditional views on semantics and pragmatics.

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Francois Recanati argues against the traditional understanding of the semantics/pragmatics divide and puts forward a radical alternative. Through half a dozen case studies, he shows that what an utterance says cannot be neatly separated from what the speaker means. In particular, the speaker's meaning endows words with senses that are tailored to the situation of utterance and depart from the conventional meanings carried by the words in isolation. This phenomenon of 'pragmatic modulation' must be taken into account in theorizing about semantic content, for it interacts with the grammar-driven process of semantic composition. Because of that interaction, Recanati argues, the content of a sentence always depends upon the context in which it is used. This claim defines Contextualism, a view which has attracted considerable attention in recent years, and of which Recanati is one of the main proponents.
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  • Author

    Francois Recanati (, Centre National De La Recherche Scientifique, Paris)

  • Book Format

    Hardback

  • Publisher

    Oxford University Press

  • Published

    November 2010

  • Weight

    518g

  • Page Count

    336

  • Dimensions

    15.8 x 23.4 x 2.6 cm

  • ISBN

    9780199226993

  • ISBN-10

    0199226997

  • Eden Code

    4563508

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