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Context, Cognition and Conditionals (Paperback, 1st ed. 2019)
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Context, Cognition and Conditionals (Paperback, 1st ed. 2019)
Series: Palgrave Studies in Pragmatics, Language and Cognition
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This book proposes a semantic theory of conditionals that can
account for (i) the variability in usages that conditional
sentences can be put; and (ii) both conditional sentences of the
form 'if p, q' and those conditional thoughts that are expressed
without using 'if'. It presents theoretical arguments as well as
empirical evidence from English and other languages in support of
the thesis that an adequate study of conditionals has to go beyond
an analysis of specific sentence forms or lexical items. The
resulting perspective on conditionals is one in which
conditionality is located at a higher level than that of the
sentence; namely, at the level of thought. The author argues that
it is only through adopting such a perspective, and with it, a
commitment to context-dependent semantics, that we can successfully
represent conditional utterances as they are used and understood by
ordinary language users. It will be of interest to students and
scholars working on the semantics of conditionals in the fields of
linguistics (especially semantics and pragmatics) and philosophy of
language.
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