Full Description
The concept of meaning, since Frege initiated the linguistic turn in 1884, has been the subject of numerous theories, hypotheses, methodologies and distinctions. One distinction of considerable strategic value relates to the location of meaning: some aspects of meaning can be found in language and are modelled with semantic values of various kinds; some aspects of meaning can be found in communicative processes and are modelled with pragmatic inferences of one sort or another. One hypothesis of great heuristic utility concerns the relationship that is assumed between the semantic and the pragmatic. This collection of especially commissioned papers examines current thinking on the plausible nature of the semantic, the possible character of the pragmatic and the mechanics of their intersection.
Contents
An Underspecified Preface
Ken Turner and Larry Horn
Part 1 On the Landscape of Negation
1 An (Abridged) Atlas of Negation: Polar Landscape in an Era of Climate Change
Larry Horn
2 Dispelling the Cloud of Unknowing: More on the Syntactic Nature of Neg Raising
Chris Collins and Paul Postal
3 Presuppositions, Negation, and Existence
Barbara Abbott
4 More Ado about nothing: On the Typology of Negative Indefinites
Johan van der Auwera and Lauren van Alsenoy
Part 2 On Sense-Generality and the Semantics/Pragmatics Landscape
5 Distinguishing Ambiguity from Underspecificity
Una Stojnic, Matthew Stone and Ernie Lepore
6 Metaphor, Minimalism, and Semantic Generality: Seeing Things in Context
Michiel Leezenberg
7 A Radically Pragmatic Account of Number Words and the Reversibility of Scales
Jerrold Sadock
8 Utterances and Expressions in Semantics and Logic
David Braun
Part 3 On Grammar, Inference, and Truth
9 Grammar as Procedures: Language, Interaction, and the Predictive Turn
Ruth Kempson and Ronnie Cann
10 Illusory Inferences in a Question-Based Theory of Reasoning
Philipp Koralus and Salvador Mascarenhas
11 A Commitment-Theoretic Account of Moore's Paradox
Jack Woods
12 Remarks on Davidson's Polymorphous Concept of Truth and Its Role in a Theory of Meaning
Ken Turner
Index
