Francois Recanati

Broschiertes Buch

Literal Meaning

Beschreibung

Franç ois Recanati provides an original defense of "contextualism" in contribution to the current debate about the best definition of semantics and pragmatics. Is "What is said" determined by linguistic conventions, or is it an aspect of "speaker's meaning"? Do we need pragmatics to fix truth-conditions? What is "literal meaning"? To what extent is semantic composition a creative process? How pervasive is context-sensitivity? Recanati offers an informed survey of the spectrum of positions held by linguists and philosophers working at the semantics/pragmatics interface.

Autor

François Recanati is a Research Director at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS, Paris). He has published many papers and several books on the philosophy of language and mind, including Meaning and Force (Cambridge, 1988), Direct Reference (1993), and Oratio Obliqua, Oratio Recta (2000). He is also co-founder and past President of the European Society for Analytic Philosophy.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 188
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Dezember 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 10mm
• Gewicht: 282g
• ISBN-13: 9780521537360
• ISBN-10: 0521537363
• Artikelnr.: 22020638