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Insensitive Semantics : A Defense of Semantic Minimalism and Speech ACT Pluralism

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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 one.

  • Provides detailed and wide-ranging overviews of the central positions and arguments surrounding contextualism
  • Addresses broad and varied aspects of the distinction between the semantic and non-semantic content of language
  • Defends a distinctive and explanatorily powerful combination of semantic minimalism and speech act pluralism
  • Confronts core problems which not only run to the heart of philosophy of language and linguistics, but which arise in epistemology, metaphysics, and moral philosophy as well

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  • ISBN-13: 9781405126748
  • ISBN-10: 1405126744
  • Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
  • Publish Date: January 2005
  • Dimensions: 9.1 x 6.62 x 0.92 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1.12 pounds
  • Page Count: 232

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