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EBOOK Pursuing Meaning

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Wydawnictwo: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780191631214
EAN: A826A9B8EB
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Stron: 272
Data wydania: 2012
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Emma Borg examines the relation between semantics (roughly, features of the        literal meaning of linguistic items) and pragmatics (features emerging from the        context within which such items are being used), and assesses recent answers to the        fundamental questions of how and where to draw the divide between the two. In        particular, she offers a defence of what is commonly known as 'minimal semantics'.          Minimal semantics, as the name suggests, wants to offer a minimal account of        theinterrelation between semantics and pragmatics. Specifically, it holds that while        context can affect literal semantic content in the case of genuine (i.e. lexically        or syntactically marked) context-sensitive expressions, this is the limit of        pragmatic input to semantic content. On all other occasionswhere context of        utterance appears to affect content, the minimalist claims that what it affects is        not literal, semantic content but what the speaker conveys by the use of this        literal content--it affects what a speaker says but not what a sentence means. As        Borg makes clear, the minimalist must allow some contextual influence on semantic        content, but her claim is that this influence can be limited to 'tame'        pragmatics--the kind of rule-governed appeals to context which won't scare        formallyminded horses. Pursuing Meaning aims to make good on this claim. The book        also contains an overview of all the main positions in the area, clarification of        its often complex terminology, and an exploration of key themes such as word        meaning, mindreading, and the relationship between semantics andpsychology.

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