Insensitive semantics a defense of semantic minimalism and speech act pluralism - Cappelen, Herman 1967-; Lepore, Ernest 1950- (Blackwell Publishing, 2005)
Includes bibliographical references (pages 209-214) and index
Insensitive Semantics is an overview of and contribution to the debates about how to accommodate context sensitivity within a theory of human communication, investigating the effects of context on communicative interaction and, as a corollary, what a context of utterance is and what it is to be in one. Provides detailed and wide-ranging overviews of the central positions and arguments surrounding contextualismAddresses broad and varied aspects of the distinction between the semantic and non-semantic content of languageDefends a distinctive and explanatorily powerful combination of semantic min