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Pursuing Meaning (Hardcover)
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Pursuing Meaning (Hardcover)
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Emma Borg examines the relation between semantics (roughly,
features of the literal meaning of linguistic items) and pragmatics
(features emerging from the context within which such items are
being used), and assesses recent answers to the fundamental
questions of how and where to draw the divide between the two. In
particular, she offers a defence of what is commonly known as
'minimal semantics'. Minimal semantics, as the name suggests, wants
to offer a minimal account of the interrelation between semantics
and pragmatics. Specifically, it holds that while context can
affect literal semantic content in the case of genuine (i.e.
lexically or syntactically marked) context-sensitive expressions,
this is the limit of pragmatic input to semantic content. On all
other occasions where context of utterance appears to affect
content, the minimalist claims that what it affects is not literal,
semantic content but what the speaker conveys by the use of this
literal content-it affects what a speaker says but not what a
sentence means. As Borg makes clear, the minimalist must allow some
contextual influence on semantic content, but her claim is that
this influence can be limited to 'tame' pragmatics-the kind of
rule-governed appeals to context which won't scare formally minded
horses. Pursuing Meaning aims to make good on this claim. The book
also contains an overview of all the main positions in the area,
clarification of its often complex terminology, and an exploration
of key themes such as word meaning, mindreading, and the
relationship between semantics and psychology.
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