Minimal Semantics

✍ Emma Borg 📂 Library 📅 2007 🏛 Oxford University Press, USA 🌐 English

<em>Minimal Semantics</em> asks what a theory of literal linguistic meaning is <em>for</em>--if you were to be given a working theory of meaning for a language right now, what would you be able to do with it? Emma Borg sets out to defend a formal approach to semantic theorizing from a relatively ne

Minimal Semantics

📁 Minimal Semantics

✍ Emma Borg 📂 Library 📅 2004 🏛 Clarendon Press 🌐 English

Minimal Semantics asks what a theory of literal linguistic meaning is for--if you were to be given a working theory of meaning for a language right now, what would you be able to do with it? Emma Borg sets out to defend a formal approach to semantic theorizing from a relatively new type of opponent

Minimal Semantics

📁 Minimal Semantics

✍ Emma Borg 📂 Library 📅 2007 🌐 English

Minimalism vs Contextualism in Semantics

📁 Minimalism vs Contextualism in Semantics

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Insensitive Semantics: A Defense of Sema

📁 Insensitive Semantics: A Defense of Semantic Minimalism and Speech Act Pluralism

✍ Herman Cappelen, Ernest Lepore 📂 Library 📅 2005 🏛 Wiley-Blackwell 🌐 English

Insensitive Semantics is an overview of and contribution to the debates about how to accommodate context sensitivity within a theory of human communication, investigating the effects of context on communicative interaction and, as a corollary, what a context of utterance is and what it is to be in

Context-Sensitivity and Semantic Minimal

📁 Context-Sensitivity and Semantic Minimalism: New Essays on Semantics and Pragmatics

✍ Gerhard Preyer, Georg Peter 📂 Library 📅 2007 🌐 English

Fifteen specially written papers examine the ways in which the content of what we say is dependent on the context in which we say it. At the centre of the current debate on this subject is Cappelen and Lepore's claim that context-sensitivity in language is best captured by a combination of semantic