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Literal Meaning
Cambridge University Press 2003; US$ 26.00Do we need pragmatics to fix truth-conditions? What is 'literal meaning'? To what extent is semantic composition a creative process? How pervasive is context-sensitivity? François Recanati defends 'contextualism' and offers an informed survey of the spectrum of positions held by linguists and philosophers working at the semantics/pragmatics interface. more...
Perspectival Thought
Clarendon Press 2007; US$ 44.99Our thought and talk are situated. They do not take place in a vacuum but always in a context, and they always concern an external situation relative to which they are to be evaluated. Since that is so, Fran--ccedil--;ois Recanati argues, our linguistic and mental representations alike must be assigned two layers of content: the explicit content, or... more...
Immunity to Error through Misidentification
Cambridge University Press 2012; US$ 76.00Devoted exclusively to the topic, this book analyses immunity to error through misidentification as an important feature of personal judgments. more...
Context-Dependence, Perspective and Relativity
De Gruyter 2010; US$ 168.00This volume brings together original papers by linguists and philosophers on the role of context and perspective in language and thought. Several contributions are concerned with the contextualism/relativism debate, which has loomed large in recent philosophical discussions. In a substantial introduction, the editors survey the field and map out the... more...
Optimality Theory and Pragmatics
Palgrave Macmillan 2003; US$ 116.00Ten leading scholars provide exacting research results and a reliable and accessible introduction to the new field of optimality theoretic pragmatics. The book includes a general introduction that overviews the foundations of this new research paradigm. The book is intended to satisfy the needs of students and professional researchers interested in... more...
Linguistic Meaning, Truth Conditions and Relevance
Palgrave Macmillan 2005; US$ 135.00The main argument of this book is that the notion of truth plays no role in speaker-hearers' interpretation of linguistic utterances and that it is not needed for theoretical accounts of linguistic meaning either. The theoretical argument is developed in the first part, while the second part supports it with cognitive relevance-theoretic, rather than... more...
Experimental Pragmatics
Palgrave Macmillan 2004; US$ 45.00How do we understand what we are told, resolve ambiguities, appreciate metaphor and irony, and grasp both explicit and implicit content in verbal communication? This book provides the first comprehensive introduction to an exciting new field in which models of language and meaning are tested and compared using techniques from psycholinguistics. more...
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