Truth, force, and knowledge in language essays on semantic and pragmatic topics
This book collects twenty-five of the author's essays, each of which addresses a descriptive or a foundational issue that arises at the interface between linguistic semantics and pragmatics, on the one hand, and the philosophy of language, on the other. Arranged into three interconnected parts...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Berlin ; Boston
De Gruyter Mouton,
[2020]
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| Series: | Trends in linguistics. Studies and monographs ;
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| Online Access: | EBSCOhost Перейти в каталог НБ ТГУ |
Table of Contents:
- 1. Truth ascriptions, falsity ascriptions, and the paratactic analysis of indirect discourse
- 2. The hybrid theory of mixed quotation
- 3. Self-reference and the divorce between meaning and truth
- 4. Performativity and the "true/false fetish"
- 5. Speaking of truth-telling: The view from wh-complements
- 6. The distance between "here" and "where I am"
- 7. A problem for a logic of "because"
- 8. What "lack" needs to have: A study in the semantics of privation
- 9. A fake typicality constraint on asymmetric acceptability
- 10. Correlative and noncorrelative conjunctions in argument and nonargument positions
- 11. Yes-no questions and the myth of content invariance
- 12. Deontic trouble in speech act botany
- 13. The gap between speech acts and mental states
- 14. A purported refutation of some theories of assertion
- 15. Two consequences of hinting
- 16. How to test a test for perlocutionary act names
- 17. Speaker meaning, sentence meaning, and metaphor
- 18. Voices and noises in the theory of speech acts
- 19. Searle's derivation of promissory obligation
- 20. Searle's Making the Social World
- 21. A paradox of cooperation in the theory of implicatures
- 22. An inferential impasse in the theory of implicatures
- 23. How to forget that "know" is factive
- 24. Three problems for the knowledge rule of assertion
- 25. Grammars as objects of knowledge: The availability of dispositionalism.