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Context and Coherence - The Logic and Grammar of Prominence (Hardcover)
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Context and Coherence - The Logic and Grammar of Prominence (Hardcover)
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Natural languages are riddled with context-sensitivity. One and the
same string of words can express many different meanings on
occasion of use, and yet we understand one another effortlessly, on
the fly. How do we do so? What fixes the meaning of
context-sensitive expressions, and how are we able to recover the
meaning so effortlessly? This book offers a novel response: we can
do so because we draw on a broad array of subtle linguistic
conventions that determine the interpretation of context-sensitive
items. Contrary to the dominant tradition, which maintains that the
meaning of context-sensitive language is underspecified by grammar
and that interpretation relies on non-linguistic cues and speakers'
intentions, this book argues that meaning is determined entirely by
discourse conventions, rules of language that have largely been
missed and the effects of which have been mistaken for
extra-linguistic effects of an utterance situation on meaning. The
linguistic account of context developed here sheds a new light on
the nature of linguistic content and the interaction between
content and context. At the same time, it provides a novel model of
context that should constrain and help evaluate debates across many
subfields of philosophy where appeal to context has been common,
often leading to surprising conclusions such as epistemology,
ethics, value theory, metaphysics, metaethics, and logic.
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