Semantics and Beyond
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Papers in the collection concentrate on different issues relevant for contemporary research within semantics, such as the linguistic and philosophical status of representations, reference theory and indexicals, situation semantics, formal semantics, normativity of meaning and speech acts, and different approaches to context and contextualism. The authors investigate the links between semantics and syntax, and between semantics, pragmatics, and speech act theory, and demonstrate that it is possible to integrate findings from different disciplines.
Recent studies often advocate a 'pragmatic turn' in the study of meaning and context; however, the papers in the volume show that semantics and meaning remain in the center of research carried out within contemporary linguistics and philosophy, especially the philosophy of language.
The volume includes contributions by: Brian Ball (St Anne's College, Oxford), John Collins (University of East Anglia), Luis Fernández Moreno (Complutense University of Madrid), Chris Fox (University of Essex), Filip Kawczynski (University of Warsaw), Katarzyna Kijania-Placek (Jagiellonian University), Joanna Klimczyk (Polish Academy of Sciences), Paul Livingston (University of New Mexico), Mark Pinder (University of Bristol), Ernesto Perini-Santos (Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais), Tabea Reiner (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Munich), Stefan Riegelnik (University of Zurich), Arthur Sullivan (Memorial University of Newfoundland), Massimiliano Vignolo (University of Genoa), and Marián Zouhar (Slovak Academy of Sciences).
The volume should be of interest to linguists, philosophers of language, and philosophers in general.
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2 - On the Normativity of Speech Acts [Seite 15]
3 - Representations without Representa: Content and Illusion in Linguistic Theory [Seite 33]
4 - Kripke, Putnam, and the Description Theory [Seite 71]
5 - The Meaning of Formal Semantics [Seite 91]
6 - Frege's Puzzle and the Direct Reference Theory [Seite 115]
7 - Situation Semantics, Time, and Descriptive Indexicals [Seite 133]
8 - The Prescription Argument Against the Normativity of Meaning [Seite 155]
9 - The Sense of Finitude and the Finitude of Sense [Seite 167]
10 - Green Leaves Again! An Assessment of Kennedy and McNally's Solution to Travis' Challenge [Seite 191]
11 - Borg's Minimalism and the Problem of Paradox [Seite 213]
12 - Lexical vs. Grammatical Meaning Revisited [Seite 237]
13 - Sentence, Proposition, and Context. On the Idea of an Intermediate Level [Seite 247]
14 - On the Semantic Relevance of Romanovs [Seite 261]
15 - What Incompleteness Arguments Tell Us about Semantics and Linguistic Competence [Seite 277]
16 - On Underdetermination of Contextualism [Seite 297]
17 - Index [Seite 319]
