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Discourse Contextualism - A Framework for Contextualist Semantics and Pragmatics (Hardcover)
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Discourse Contextualism - A Framework for Contextualist Semantics and Pragmatics (Hardcover)
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This book investigates context-sensitivity in natural language by
examining the meaning and use of a target class of theoretically
recalcitrant expressions. These expressions-including epistemic
vocabulary, normative and evaluative vocabulary, and vague language
("CR-expressions")-exhibit systematic differences from paradigm
context-sensitive expressions in their discourse dynamics and
embedding properties. Many researchers have responded by rethinking
the nature of linguistic meaning and communication. Drawing on
general insights about the role of context in interpretation and
collaborative action, Silk develops an improved contextualist
theory of CR-expressions within the classical truth-conditional
paradigm: Discourse Contextualism. The aim of Discourse
Contextualism is to derive the distinctive linguistic behavior of a
CR-expression from a particular contextualist interpretation of an
independently motivated formal semantics, along with general
principles of interpretation and conversation. It is shown how in
using CR-expressions, speakers can exploit their mutual grammatical
and world knowledge, and general pragmatic reasoning skills, to
coordinate their attitudes and negotiate about how the context
should evolve. The book focuses primarily on developing a Discourse
Contextualist semantics and pragmatics for epistemic modals. The
Discourse Contextualist framework is also applied to other
categories of epistemic vocabulary, normative and evaluative
vocabulary, and vague adjectives. The similarities/differences
among these expressions, and among context-sensitive expressions
more generally, have been underexplored. The development of
Discourse Contextualism in this book sheds light on general
features of meaning and communication, and the variety of ways in
which context affects and is affected by uses of language.
Discourse Contextualism provides a fruitful framework for
theorizing about various broader issues in philosophy, linguistics,
and cognitive science.
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