| 书目名称 | Overlooking Conventions | | 副标题 | The Trouble With Lin | | 编辑 | Michael Devitt | | 视频video | | | 概述 | Criticizes the reliance on intuitions in theorizing about language.Proposes a scientifically sound methodology for the semantics/pragmatics dispute.Identifies the common confusion of what constitutes | | 丛书名称 | Perspectives in Pragmatics, Philosophy & Psychology | | 图书封面 |  | | 描述 | .This book criticizes the methodology of the recent semantics-pragmatics debate in the theory of language and proposes an alternative. It applies this methodology to argue for a traditional view against a group of “contextualists” and “pragmatists”, including Sperber and Wilson, Bach, Carston, Recanati, Neale, and many others. The author disagrees with these theorists who hold that the meaning of the sentence in an utterance never, or hardly ever, yields its literal truth-conditional content, even after disambiguation and reference fixing; it needs to be pragmatically supplemented in context..The standard methodology of this debate is to consult intuitions. The book argues that theories should be tested against linguistic usage. Theoretical distinctions, however intuitive, need to be scientifically motivated. Also we should not be guided by Grice’s “Modified Occam’s Razor”, Ruhl’s “Monosemantic Bias”, or other such strategies for “meaning denialism”. From this novel perspective, the striking examples of context relativity that motivate contextualists and pragmatists typically exemplify semantic rather than pragmatic properties. In particular, polysemous phenomena should typically | | 出版日期 | Book 2021 | | 关键词 | Semantics vs Pragmatics; What is Said; Truth-conditional Pragmatics; Semantic Underdetermination; Modifi | | 版次 | 1 | | doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-70653-1 | | isbn_softcover | 978-3-030-70655-5 | | isbn_ebook | 978-3-030-70653-1Series ISSN 2214-3807 Series E-ISSN 2214-3815 | | issn_series | 2214-3807 | | copyright | Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021 |
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