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About this book
Papers in the collection concentrate on different issues relevant for contemporary research within semantics, such as the linguistic and philosophical status of representations, reference theory and indexicals, situation semantics, formal semantics, normativity of meaning and speech acts, and different approaches to context and contextualism. The authors investigate the links between semantics and syntax, and between semantics, pragmatics, and speech act theory, and demonstrate that it is possible to integrate findings from different disciplines.
Recent studies often advocate a 'pragmatic turn' in the study of meaning and context; however, the papers in the volume show that semantics and meaning remain in the center of research carried out within contemporary linguistics and philosophy, especially the philosophy of language.
The volume includes contributions by: Brian Ball (St Anne's College, Oxford), John Collins (University of East Anglia), Luis Fernández Moreno (Complutense University of Madrid), Chris Fox (University of Essex), Filip Kawczy?ski (University of Warsaw), Katarzyna Kijania-Placek (Jagiellonian University), Joanna Klimczyk (Polish Academy of Sciences), Paul Livingston (University of New Mexico), Mark Pinder (University of Bristol), Ernesto Perini-Santos (Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais), Tabea Reiner (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Munich), Stefan Riegelnik (University of Zurich), Arthur Sullivan (Memorial University of Newfoundland), Massimiliano Vignolo (University of Genoa), and Marián Zouhar (Slovak Academy of Sciences).
The volume should be of interest to linguists, philosophers of language, and philosophers in general.
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Table of contents
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Semantics and Beyond: Philosophical and Linguistic Inquiries. Preface
- On the Normativity of Speech Acts
- Representations without Representa: Content and Illusion in Linguistic Theory
- Kripke, Putnam, and the Description Theory
- The Meaning of Formal Semantics
- Frege’s Puzzle and the Direct Reference Theory
- Situation Semantics, Time, and Descriptive Indexicals
- The Prescription Argument Against the Normativity of Meaning
- The Sense of Finitude and the Finitude of Sense
- Green Leaves Again! An Assessment of Kennedy and McNally’s Solution to Travis’ Challenge
- Borg’s Minimalism and the Problem of Paradox
- Lexical vs. Grammatical Meaning Revisited
- Sentence, Proposition, and Context. On the Idea of an Intermediate Level
- On the Semantic Relevance of Romanovs
- What Incompleteness Arguments Tell Us about Semantics and Linguistic Competence
- On Underdetermination of Contextualism
- Index