Literal Meaning (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780521792462)

Fran輟is Recanati provides an original defense of "contextualism" in contribution to the current debate about the best definition of semantics and pragmatics. Is "What is said" determined by linguistic conventions, or is it an aspect of "speaker's meaning"? Do we need pragmatics to fix truth-conditions? What is "literal meaning"? To what extent is semantic composition a creative process? How pervasive is context-sensitivity? Recanati offers an informed survey of the spectrum of positions held by linguists and philosophers working at the semantics/pragmatics interface.

Author: Fran輟is Recanati
ISBN-10: 0521792460
ISBN-13: 9780521792462
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 12/11/2003
Pages: 188
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.99lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.56d