Results for 'semantics and pragmatics'

954 found
Order:
  1.  53
    Semantics Versus Pragmatics.Zoltan Gendler Szabo (ed.) - 2004 - Oxford, GB: Oxford University Press UK.
    Leading scholars in the philosophy of language and theoretical linguistics present brand-new papers on a major topic at the intersection of the two fields, the distinction between semantics and pragmatics. Anyone engaged with this issue in either discipline will find much to reward their attention here. Contributors: Kent Bach, Herman Cappelen, Michael Glanzberg, Jeffrey C. King, Ernie Lepore, Stephen Neale, F. Recanati, Nathan Salmon, Mandy Simons, Scott Soames, Robert J. Stainton, Jason Stanley, Zoltan Gendler Szabo.
    Direct download  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark   24 citations  
  2. Semantics vs. pragmatics.Zoltán Gendler Szabó (ed.) - 2005 - New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press.
    Leading scholars in the philosophy of language and theoretical linguistics present brand-new papers on a major topic at the intersection of the two fields, the distinction between semantics and pragmatics. Anyone engaged with this issue in either discipline will find much to reward their attention here. Contributors: Kent Bach, Herman Cappelen, Michael Glanzberg, Jeffrey C. King, Ernie Lepore, Stephen Neale, F. Recanati, Nathan Salmon, Mandy Simons, Scott Soames, Robert J. Stainton, Jason Stanley, Zoltan Gendler Szabo.
    Direct download  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark   11 citations  
  3.  53
    Semantics vs. Pragmatics in Impure Quotation.Mario Gomez-Torrente - 2017 - In Paul Saka & Michael Johnson, The Semantics and Pragmatics of Quotation. Cham: Springer. pp. 135-167.
    I defend a semantic theory of quotation marks, according to which these are ambiguous, as they have several different acceptations involving corresponding different conventional indications. In particular, in allusion (“mixed”) uses, the corresponding conventional indication is one with an adverbial or prepositional content, roughly equivalent to “using the quoted expression or an appropriate version of it”. And in “scare” uses, the corresponding conventional indication is that the enclosed expression should be used not plainly but in some broadly speaking distanced way, (...)
    Direct download (2 more)  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark   5 citations  
  4. Semantics versus pragmatics in colour categorization.Nick Braisby & Bradley Franks - 1997 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 20 (2):181-182.
    We argue that the confusing pattern of evidence concerning colour categorization reported by Saunders & van Brakel is unsurprising. On a perspectival view, categorization may follow semantic or pragmatic attributes. Colour lacks clear semantic attributes; as a result categorization is necessarily pragmatic and context-sensitive. This view of colour categorization helps explain the developmental delay in colour naming.
    Direct download (8 more)  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark  
  5. The Definiteness Effect: Semantics or Pragmatics[REVIEW]Ed Keenan - 2003 - Natural Language Semantics 11 (2):187-216.
    In this paper I propose and defend a semantically based account of the distribution of DPs in existential there-sentences in English in opposition to the pragmatic account proposed in Zucchi (1995). The two analyses share many features, making it possible to study variation along the semantics/pragmatics dimension while holding the rest constant.
    Direct download (4 more)  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark   16 citations  
  6.  31
    On the empirical psychology of success semantics for pragmatic representations.Gordon Robert Foxall & João Pinheiro - 2022 - Philosophical Psychology 35 (6):887-910.
    Psychology’s emphasis on empirical investigation has long benefited from conceptual developments taking place in its intellectual community, but also from cognate areas in Philosophy. This paper explores the implications for empirical psychology of a recent conceptual proposal advanced within the philosophy of perception by Bence Nanay. In particular, Nanay proposes that “pragmatic representations”, i.e., perceptual representations of the properties of objects necessary for the successful completion of actions, are the rightful target for a success semantics. A success semantics (...)
    Direct download (2 more)  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark  
  7. The semantics and pragmatics of value judgments.Bianca Cepollaro, Andrés Soria Ruiz & Isidora Stojanovic - 2021 - In Piotr Stalmaszczyk, The Cambridge Handbook of the Philosophy of Language. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press.
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark  
  8.  40
    Semantics and pragmatics: from experiment to theory.Uli Sauerland & Kazuko Yatsushiro (eds.) - 2009 - Basingstoke: Palgrave-Macmillan.
    This volume comprises thirteen original research papers and three overview papers presenting new work using a number of experimental techniques from psycho- and neurolinguistics in the three key areas of current semantics and pragmatics: implicature, negation and presupposition.
    Direct download  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark   1 citation  
  9. The effects of aspectual class on the temporal structure of discourse: Semantics or pragmatics[REVIEW]David Dowty - 1986 - Linguistics and Philosophy 9 (1):37 - 61.
  10. The Semantics-Pragmatics Boundary in Philosophy.Maite Ezcurdia & Robert J. Stainton (eds.) - 2013 - Peterborough, CA: Broadview Press.
    The boundary between semantics and pragmatics has been important since the early twentieth century, but in the last twenty-five years it has become the central issue in the philosophy of language. This anthology collects classic philosophical papers on the topic, along with recent key contributions. It stresses not only the nature of the boundary, but also its importance for philosophy generally.
    Direct download  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark   7 citations  
  11.  60
    The semantics/pragmatics interface from different points of view.Ken Turner (ed.) - 1999 - New York: Elsevier.
    This volume examines explicitly the question of how the semantics and pragmatics of a number of expressions might be responsibly discussed. In the past, the temptation has been for the expressions in question to be discussed either in terms of the semantics, or in terms of the pragmatics, but extremely rarely in terms of both. This book shows how revealing analyses for this interface can be provided for the expressions in question. In specially commissioned chapters from (...)
    Direct download  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark   6 citations  
  12.  8
    The semantics-pragmatics controversy.Kristin Börjesson - 2014 - Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton.
    Currently, there is a great number of approaches to the semantics-pragmatics distinction on the market. This book is unique in that it offers a comprehensive overview, comparison and critical evaluation of these approaches. At the same time, it covers a wide range of the key current topics in semantics and pragmatics (e.g., the saying/meaning distinction, minimalism vs. contextualism, (generalised) conversational implicatures).
    Direct download  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark   2 citations  
  13. Semanticspragmatics interaction.Christopher Potts - unknown
    It seems unlikely that there will ever be consensus about the extent to which we can reliably distinguish semantic phenomena from pragmatic phenomena. But there is now broad agreement that a sentence's meaning can be given in full only when it is studied in its natural habitat: as part of an utterance by an agent who intends it to communicate a message. Here, we document some of the interactions that such study has uncovered. In every case, to achieve even a (...)
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark  
  14. Formal semantics in the age of pragmatics.Juan Barba - 2007 - Linguistics and Philosophy 30 (6):637-668.
    This paper aims to argue for two related statements: first, that formal semantics should not be conceived of as interpreting natural language expressions in a single model (a very large one representing the world as a whole, or something like that) but as interpreting them in many different models (formal counterparts, say, of little fragments of reality); second, that accepting such a conception of formal semantics yields a better comprehension of the relation between semantics and pragmatics (...)
    Direct download (5 more)  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark   2 citations  
  15. The Semantics and Pragmatics in the Philosophy of Law.Marek Nestina - 2013 - Organon F: Medzinárodný Časopis Pre Analytickú Filozofiu 20:105-121.
  16.  18
    Meaning: semantics, pragmatics, cognition.Betty J. Birner - 2023 - New York: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group.
    Meaning addresses the fundamental question of human language interaction: what it is to mean, and how we communicate our meanings to others. Experienced textbook writer and eminent researcher Betty J. Birner gives balanced coverage to semantics and pragmatics, emphasizing interactions between the two, and discusses other fields of language study such as syntax, neurology, philosophy of language, and artificial intelligence in terms of their interfaces with linguistic meaning.
    Direct download  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark  
  17. Semantics and Pragmatics in the Interpretation of Metaphor.Catherine Wearing - 2002 - Dissertation, Harvard University
    This dissertation examines how the distinction between what is said and what is implicated should be applied to metaphorical language. I claim that metaphor has been incorrectly held to belong to the domain of pragmatics---what is implicated by an utterance---and I argue that metaphorical interpretations can and should be regarded as constituting what is said. ;The first two chapters develop the case against two implicature accounts of metaphor: Grice's account of metaphor as conversational implicature, and the relevance-theoretic account of (...)
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark  
  18. The semantics and pragmatics of value judgments.Bianca Cepollaro, Andrés Soria Ruiz & Isidora Stojanovic - 2021 - In Piotr Stalmaszczyk, The Cambridge Handbook of the Philosophy of Language. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press.
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark  
  19. Semantic and Pragmatic Meaning of Language Expressions.Barbora Geistova Cakovska - 2012 - Organon F: Medzinárodný Časopis Pre Analytickú Filozofiu 19 (1):46-55.
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark  
  20. Semantics & pragmatics.Adrian Brasoveanu - manuscript
    donkey anaphora, quantificational and modal subordination, static and dynamic approaches to mood, tense and aspect, entailment in natural language, parallels between the individual, temporal and modal domain.
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark  
  21. Semantics and pragmatics of the language in the law.Marek Nestina - 2012 - Filozofia 67 (9):718-730.
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark  
  22.  30
    The Semantics-Pragmatics Interface.Philippe Schlenker - 2016 - In Maria Aloni & Paul Dekker, Formal Semantics. Cambridge University Press. pp. 664 - 727.
    The informational content conveyed by utterances has two sources:meaning as it is encoded in words and rules of semantic composition (often called literal or semantic meaning) and further inferences that may be obtained by reasoning on the speaker's motives (the conjunction of these inferences with the literal meaning is often called the strengthened or pragmatic meaning of the sentence). While in simple cases the difference can seem obvious enough, in general this is not so, and the investigation of the (...)pragmatics interface has proven to be one of the most vibrant areas of research in contemporary studies of meaning. We will survey three domains – scalar implicatures, presuppositions, and conventional implicatures – in which there are considerable empirical benefits to be obtained from this enterprise. However, it is also of foundational and methodological interest: knowledge of semantic meaning is part of knowledge of language; by contrast, pragmatic inferences are derived in part from the assumption that the speaker obeys certain rules of behavior – typically ones dictated by rationality (which may, for instance, lead to the maximization of the utility of an utterance to the speaker or to others). Owing to foundational interest in the interaction between language and reasoning, the study of the semanticspragmatics interface originated in philosophy; however, it quickly became a central topic within linguistics and psycholinguistics, and the convergence of results from these last two fields has resulted in rich cross-disciplinary exchanges. For reasons of space, we do not consider psycholinguistic results in this survey, but it should be said at the outset that they have changed the face of the field by providing new and more reliable data (for instance, on processing and language acquisition) and sometimes by challenging data that had too quickly become solidified on the basis of unsystematic introspection alone. -/- As we will see, the debates are more open than ever. Scalar implicatures, which were usually considered a staple of pragmatic reasoning, have recently been reassigned to the semantics or even to the syntax by proponents of locally computed implicatures (‘localists’ for short). (shrink)
    Direct download  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark   10 citations  
  23.  27
    Semantic and pragmatic aspects of the interaction of time and modality in French: an interval-based account.Laurent Gosselin - 2013 - In Kasia M. Jaszczolt & Louis de Saussure, Time: Language, Cognition & Reality. Oxford University Press. pp. 1--98.
  24. the semantics/pragmatics distinction.Claudia Bianchi (ed.) - 2004 - CSLI.
    Semantic theory in linguistics cannot retain its traditional purity, free of pragmatic contextual considerations. Agreement with the preceding claim, generally shared by this volume's contributors, provides the setting for a presentation of various provocative approaches toward a precise definition of pragmatics along with a reconciliation of pragmatics with semantics. Here is a collection of leading-edge work that examines the semantics/pragmatics dispute in terms of phenomena such as indexicals, proper names, conventional and conversational implicatures, procedural meaning, (...)
    Direct download (2 more)  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark   10 citations  
  25. The following classification is pragmatic and is intended merely to facilitate reference. No claim to exhaustive categorization is made by the parenthetical additions in small capitals.Psycholinguistics Semantics & Formal Properties Of Languages - 1974 - Foundations of Language: International Journal of Language and Philosophy 12:149.
  26. The semantics/pragmatics interface from an experimental perspective: the case of scalar implicature.Napoleon Katsos - 2008 - Synthese 165 (3):385-401.
    In this paper I discuss some of the criteria that are widely used in the linguistic and philosophical literature to classify an aspect of meaning as either semantic or pragmatic. With regards to the case of scalar implicature (e.g. some Fs are G implying that not all Fs are G), these criteria are not ultimately conclusive, either in the results of their application, or in the interpretation of the results with regards to the semantics/pragmatics distinction (or in both). (...)
    Direct download (4 more)  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark   6 citations  
  27. Toward a sharp semantics/pragmatics distinction.Megan Henricks Stotts - 2020 - Synthese 197 (1):185–208.
    The semantics/pragmatics distinction was once considered central to the philosophy of language, but recently the distinction’s viability and importance have been challenged. In opposition to the growing movement away from the distinction, I argue that we really do need it, and that we can draw the distinction sharply if we draw it in terms of the distinction between non-mental and mental phenomena. On my view, semantic facts arise from context-independent meaning, compositional rules, and non-mental elements of context, whereas (...)
    Direct download (2 more)  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark   2 citations  
  28. Pragmatic force in semantic context.Elisabeth Camp - 2017 - Philosophical Studies 174 (6):1617-1627.
    Stalnaker’s Context deploys the core machinery of common ground, possible worlds, and epistemic accessibility to mount a powerful case for the ‘autonomy of pragmatics’: the utility of theorizing about discourse function independently of specific linguistic mechanisms. Illocutionary force lies at the peripherybetween pragmatics—as the rational, non-conventional dynamics of context change—and semantics—as a conventional compositional mechanism for determining truth-conditional contents—in an interesting way. I argue that the conventionalization of illocutionary force, most notably in assertion, has important crosscontextual consequences (...)
    Direct download (2 more)  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark   3 citations  
  29.  30
    The Semantic-Pragmatic Analysis of Persian Modal Verbs Based on Papafragou's Model.Zohreh Vahedi & Jalal Rahimian - 2010 - Lodz Papers in Pragmatics 6 (1):67-116.
    The Semantic-Pragmatic Analysis of Persian Modal Verbs Based on Papafragou's Model This paper aims at analyzing the semantics and pragmatics of Persian modal verbs based on Papafragou's relevance-theoretic model. Persian modals are defined in terms of logical relations and propositional domains. According to the findings of the research, two of the three modals, namely, šodan and tavân express the logical relation of compatibility with respect to different propositional domains: the three forms mišavad, mišod and mišode are unspecified with (...)
    Direct download (2 more)  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark  
  30.  42
    Semantics, pragmatics, philosophy: a journey through meaning.Katarzyna Jaszczolt - 2023 - New York, NY: Cambridge University Press.
    This book is about meaning - not the meaning of certain concepts such as the meaning of life or the meaning of freedom but about what it means for linguistic expressions to mean something. It is also a book about meaning for humans. The qualification 'human meaning' is not yet common in linguistics book titles but it is increasingly important to add it. We are already experiencing fundamental differences in how, and what kind of, meaning is approached in computational linguistics (...)
    Direct download  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark  
  31.  40
    Pragmatic considerations in semantic analyses.Ruth Manor - 1995 - Pragmatics and Cognition 3 (2):225-245.
    In this paper I argue against a sharp separation of semantics from pragmatics. While it may be useful to consider semantics independently of pragmatics, in some cases this strategy may lead us astray. First, I make a methodological point. Competing semantic analyses are often presented as supported by competing semantic intuitions of native speakers. Functional considerations are pragmatic considerations which should affect our choice of semantics. These are inferences from the linguistic goals the speakers actually (...)
    Direct download (3 more)  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark   2 citations  
  32. The semantics and pragmatics of topic phrases.Paul Portner & Katsuhiko Yabushita - 1998 - Linguistics and Philosophy 21 (2):117-157.
  33. Perspectives on the semantics/pragmatics debate: insights from aphasia research.Roberto Graci & Alessandro Capone - 2023 - Frontiers in Psychology 2023 (14):1-20.
    n the philosophy of language, there are many ongoing controversies that stem from relying too heavily on an utterance-based framework. The traditional approach of rigidly partitioning the utterance’s meaning into what is grammatically determined from what is not may not fully capture the complexity of human language in real-world communicative contexts. To address this issue, we suggest shifting focus toward a broader analysis level encompassing conversations and discourses. From this broader perspective, it is possible to obtain a more integrated view (...)
    Direct download (3 more)  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark  
  34.  25
    On the nature of pragmatic constituents : Considerations on the semantics/pragmatics debate.Roberto Graci - 2023 - Pragmatics and Society 14 (1):170-184.
    The present article focuses on certain points in the semantics/pragmatics debate. Among these, one of the most interesting is the possibility of reconciling, independent of the context, certain aspects of meaning which have always been the subject of discussion in formal semantics, with the view that meaning is socially and situationally conditioned. Recent new insights concerning the importance of pragmatics for enriching the propositional content of the utterance should not lead to a radical contextualism that denies (...)
    No categories
    Direct download (2 more)  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark  
  35.  68
    Pragmatic information in dynamic semantics.Peter beim Graben - 2006 - Mind and Matter 4 (2):169-193.
    In 1972,Ernst Ulrich and Christine von Weizs ¨acker introduced the concept of pragmatic information with three desiderata:(i) Pragmatic information should assess the impact of a message upon its receiver;(ii)Pragmatic information should vanish in the limits of complete (non-interpretable)'novelty 'and complete 'confirmation';(iii)Pragmatic information should exhibit non-classical properties since novelty and confirmation behave similarly to Fourier pairs of complementary operators in quantum mechanics. It will be shown how these three desiderata can be naturally fulfilled within the framework of Gardenfors' dynamic semantics (...)
    Direct download (2 more)  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark   2 citations  
  36. Prepragmatics: Widening the Semantics-Pragmatics Boundary.Isidora Stojanovic - 2014 - In Alexis Burgess & Brett Sherman, Metasemantics: New Essays on the Foundations of Meaning. New York: Oxford University Press. pp. 311-326.
    One of the most important and, at the same time, most controversial issues in metasemantics is the question of what semantics is, and what distinguishes semantic elements (features, properties, phenomena, mechanisms, processes, or whatever) from the rest. The issue is tightly linked with the debate over the semantics-pragmatics distinction, which has been vibrant for a decade or two, but seems to be reaching an impasse. I suggest that this impasse may be due to the failure to recognize (...)
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark   3 citations  
  37. Implications of the Semantics and Pragmatics Distinction for Philosophy of Science.K. Soyhun - 2006 - Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science 244:163.
  38. Action-Directed Pragmatics Secures Semantically Autonomous Knowledge.Igal Kvart - manuscript
    In the past couple of decades, there were a few major attempts to establish the thesis of pragmatic infringement – that a significant pragmatic ingredient figures significantly in the truth-conditions for knowledge-ascriptions. As candidates, epistemic contextualism and Relativism flaunted conversational standards, and Stanley's SSI promoted stakes. These conceptions were propelled first and foremost by obviously pragmatic examples of knowledge ascriptions that seem to require a pragmatic component in the truth-conditions of knowledge ascriptions in order to be accounted for. However, if (...)
    Direct download  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark   5 citations  
  39. Recanati on the Semantics/pragmatics Distinction.Manuel García-Carpintero - 2006 - Critica 38 (112):35-68.
    One of the hottest philosophical debates in recent years concerns the nature of the semantics/pragmatics divide. Some writers have expressed the reserve that this might be merely terminological, but in my view it ultimately concerns a substantive issue with empirical implications: the scope and limits of a serious scientific undertaking, formal semantics. In this critical note I discuss two arguments by Recanati: his main methodological argument --viz. that the contents posited by what he calls 'literalists' play no (...)
    Direct download (2 more)  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark   16 citations  
  40. On the semantics/pragmatics distinction.Brendan S. Gillon - 2008 - Synthese 165 (3):373-384.
    This paper addresses two questions: what is the distinction between semantics and pragmatics? And why is this distinction important? These questions are discussed in light of the central explanatory goal of linguistics and in relation to the phenomenon of context sensitivity, as illustrated by relational words with implicit arguments and by so-called quantifier domain restriction. It is concluded that context sensitivity is, in the former case, grammatical or lexical and, in the latter case, neither.
    Direct download (3 more)  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark   6 citations  
  41.  15
    Sub-Sententials: Pragmatics or Semantics?Michael Devitt - 2018 - In Keith Allan, Jay David Atlas, Brian E. Butler, Alessandro Capone, Marco Carapezza, Valentina Cuccio, Denis Delfitto, Michael Devitt, Graeme Forbes, Alessandra Giorgi, Neal R. Norrick, Nathan Salmon, Gunter Senft, Alberto Voltolini & Richard Warner, Further Advances in Pragmatics and Philosophy: Part 1 From Theory to Practice. Springer Verlag. pp. 45-64.
    Stainton points out that speakers “can make assertions while speaking sub-sententially”. He argues for a “pragmatics-oriented approach” to these phenomena and against a “semantics-oriented approach”. In contrast, I argue for a largely semantics-oriented approach: typically, sub-sentential utterances assert a truth-conditional proposition in virtue of exploiting a semantic convention. Thus, there is an “implicit-demonstrative convention” in English of expressing a thought that a particular object in mind is F by saying simply ‘F’. I note also that some sub-sentential (...)
    No categories
    Direct download  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark   4 citations  
  42.  26
    On 'Pragmatic considerations in semantic analyses'.Ken Turner - 1997 - Pragmatics and Cognition 5 (1):163-176.
  43.  12
    Alternatives in Semantics.Anamaria Fălăuş (ed.) - 2013 - New York, NY: Palgrave-Macmillan.
    Alternatives in Semantics is the first volume to focus on alternatives as a key theme. It offers a survey of the use of alternatives in semantics and pragmatics, and an overview of current approaches and applications of alternative-based semantics, from both theoretical and experimental perspectives. The chapters represent different theoretical frameworks, which differ in the way they conceive of the source of alternatives, the status of alternatives, or the precise way in which they enter semantic composition. (...)
    Direct download  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark  
  44.  37
    From formal semantics to transcendental pragmatics: Karl-Otto Apel’s original insight.Jürgen Habermas - 2020 - Philosophy and Social Criticism 46 (6):627-650.
    Karl-Otto Apel occupies a pre-eminent place among the German philosophers of the first post-war generation. His groundbreaking achievement, which has been unjustly overshadowed by the tenacious debate over the ‘ultimate justification’ of ethics, consisted in disclosing a new dimension in the philosophy of language and thereby completing the ‘linguistic turn’. He made the transition from formal semantics, which concentrates on the structure of propositions, to ‘transcendental’ pragmatics of language, which focuses on the formal aspects of the use and (...)
    No categories
    Direct download (3 more)  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark  
  45.  12
    Tonk, Syntax, Semantics, Pragmatics.Jan Woleński - 2024 - Studies in Logic, Grammar and Rhetoric 69 (1):259-266.
    In 1960, A. N. Prior proposed a binary sentential functor defined by inferential rule (introduction) A ⊢ A tonk B, and (elimination) A tonk B ⊢ A. Later, this idea was discussed by several authors, including in the context of the question of whether the ab ove rule defines this functor in a sufficient manner. This paper shows that if we assume the standard matrix (truth-tables) characterization of classical sentential functors, no valuation agrees with rules generating the sense of tonk. (...)
    Direct download (2 more)  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark  
  46. Acceptable Contradictions: Pragmatics or Semantics? A Reply to Cobreros et al. [REVIEW]Sam Alxatib, Peter Pagin & Uli Sauerland - 2013 - Journal of Philosophical Logic 42 (4):619-634.
    Naive speakers find some logical contradictions acceptable, specifically borderline contradictions involving vague predicates such as Joe is and isn’t tall. In a recent paper, Cobreros et al. (J Philos Logic, 2012) suggest a pragmatic account of the acceptability of borderline contradictions. We show, however, that the pragmatic account predicts the wrong truth conditions for some examples with disjunction. As a remedy, we propose a semantic analysis instead. The analysis is close to a variant of fuzzy logic, but conjunction and disjunction (...)
    Direct download (6 more)  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark   10 citations  
  47. Entry title: Semantics/Pragmatics boundary.Anne Bezuidenhout - unknown
    The Gricean distinction between saying and implicating suggests a clear division of labour between semantics and pragmatics. The standard view that a semantic theory delivers truth-conditions for every well-formed sentence of a language has been grafted onto a Gricean view of the semantics-pragmatics divide. Consequently, many believe that truth-conditions can be specified in a way that is essentially free from pragmatic considerations. This view has been challenged, by those who argue for pragmatic intrusion into truth-conditional content. (...)
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark  
  48.  7
    Introduction to The Semantics-Pragmatics Boundary in Philosophy.Maite Ezdurdia & Robert Stainton - unknown
    An introductory survey of the nature and importance of the semantics-pragmatics boundary.
    No categories
    Direct download (3 more)  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark  
  49. The Pragmatics of Slurs.Renée Jorgensen Bolinger - 2015 - Noûs 51 (3):439-462.
    I argue that the offense generation pattern of slurring terms parallels that of impoliteness behaviors, and is best explained by appeal to similar purely pragmatic mechanisms. In choosing to use a slurring term rather than its neutral counterpart, the speaker signals that she endorses the term. Such an endorsement warrants offense, and consequently slurs generate offense whenever a speaker's use demonstrates a contrastive preference for the slurring term. Since this explanation comes at low theoretical cost and imposes few constraints on (...)
    Direct download (4 more)  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark   93 citations  
  50. At the Semantics/Pragmatics Interface in Child Language.Luisa Meronia - unknown
    This paper investigates scalar implicatures and downward entailment in child English. In previous experimental work we have shown that adults’ computation of scalar implicatures is sensitive to entailment relations. For instance, when the disjunction operator or occurs in positive contexts, an implicature of exclusivity arises. By contrast when the disjunction operator occurs within the scope of a downward entailing linguistic expression, no implicature of exclusivity is computed. Investigations on children’s computation of scalar implicatures in the same contexts have led to (...)
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark   7 citations  
1 — 50 / 954