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First edition. |
| Description |
1 online resource (vii, 255 pages) |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Cover; Discourse Contextualism: A Framework for Contextualist Semantics and Pragmatics; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Epigraph; 1: Introduction: CR-Expressions and Discourse Contextualism; PART I: Discourse Contextualism: An Application to Epistemic Modals; 2: Accommodation and Negotiation with Context-Sensitive Expressions; 2.1 Epistemic Modals and Discourse Disagreement; 2.2 Insufficient Replies; 2.2.1 The Varieties of Linguistic Denial. Metacontextual Negotiation; 2.2.2 Epistemic Modals in a Language Game; 2.2.3 Recap. |
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2.3 Accommodation and Negotiation with Paradigm Context-Sensitive Expressions; 2.4 AWay Forward; 2.5 Managing the Context: Toward Discourse Contextualism; 3: Discourse Contextualism I: Epistemic Modals in Discourse; 3.1 Components 1 and 2 : From Formal Semantics to Interpretive Constraints; 3.2 Component : Using Epistemic Modals. The Basic Account; 3.3 Features; 3.3.1 Justified Use; 3.3.2 Locus of Disagreement; 3.3.3 Discourse-Oriented Effects; 3.3.4 Expressing States of Mind; 3.3.5 Expressive vs. Intuitively Contextualist Uses; 3.3.6 Anaphoric Properties. Contextual Underspecification. |
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3.3.7 Recap; 3.4 More Data: Retraction and Eavesdroppers; 3.4.1 Retraction; Retraction arguments; Insufficient replies; Learning from new data; 3.4.2 Eavesdroppers and Inter-Conversational Disagreement; Eavesdropper arguments; An insufficient reply; Inter-conversational disagreement; Learning from new data; 3.5 Aside: Presupposition and Epistemic Modals; 3.5.1 "Assuming" Values for Variables?; 3.5.2 Presupposition and Non-Monotonic Updates; 3.5.3 A Presupposition of Commonality?; 3.6 Truth; 3.7 Recap; 4: Discourse Contextualism II: How to Embed an Epistemic Modal; 4.1 Embedding Problems. |
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4.1.1 First-Order States of Mind; 4.1.2 Obligatory Shifting; 4.1.3 Epistemic Contradictions; 4.1.4 Inferences; 4.1.5 Factive Attitudes; 4.2 Embedding Solutions; 4.2.1 First-Order States of Mind; 4.2.2 Obligatory Shifting; 4.2.3 Epistemic Contradictions; 4.2.4 Inferences; 4.2.5 Factive Attitudes; 4.2.6 Recap; 4.3 Aside: Contextualism and Relativist Content; 4.4 A Challenge Revisited: Epistemic Modals and Paradigm Context-Sensitive Expressions; 4.5 Recap; PART II: Discourse Contextualism: Extensions; 5: Extension I: Deontic Modals; 5.1 Introduction; 5.2 Deontic Modals in Discourse. |
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5.2.1 Contextualism about Deontic Modals; 5.2.2 Agreeing and Disagreeing with Normative Language; 5.2.3 A Discourse Contextualist Account; 5.2.4 Features; Justified use and disagreement; Discourse contextualism vs. speaker subjectivism; Normative uses and open questions; 5.2.5 Uncertainty and Indecision in Normative Inquiry; 5.2.6 Recap; 5.3 Embedded Contexts and NormativeThought; 5.3.1 Attitudes and Attitude Ascriptions; First-order states of mind; 5.3.2 CR-Contradictions?; 5.4 Realism and Normative Truth; 5.5 Recap; 5.6 Information-Sensitivity. |
| Summary |
Alex Silk investigates the role of context in the meaning and use of natural language. Discourse Contextualism provides a systematic account of the distinctive ways in which speakers use context-sensitive expressions to coordinate their attitudes and negotiate about how the context should evolve. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Contextualism (Philosophy)
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Contextualism (Philosophy) |
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Semantics.
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Semantics. |
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Pragmatics.
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Pragmatics. |
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semantics. |
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pragmatics. |
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PHILOSOPHY -- Epistemology. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Silk, Alex. Discourse contextualism. [Place of publication not identified] : Oxford Univ Press, 2016 0198783922 (OCoLC)936143333 |
| ISBN |
9780191086526 (electronic book) |
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0191086525 (electronic book) |
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9780191826573 |
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019182657X |
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9780198783923 |
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