Context and coherence: the logic and grammar of prominence
Natural languages are riddled with context-sensitivity. One and the same string of words can express many different meanings on occasion of use, and yet we understand one another effortlessly, on the fly. How do we do so? What fixes the meaning of context-sensitive expressions, and how are we able t...
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| Zusammenfassung: | Natural languages are riddled with context-sensitivity. One and the same string of words can express many different meanings on occasion of use, and yet we understand one another effortlessly, on the fly. How do we do so? What fixes the meaning of context-sensitive expressions, and how are we able to recover the meaning so effortlessly? This book offers a novel response: we can do so because we draw on a broad array of subtle linguistic conventions that determine the interpretation of context-sensitive items. Contrary to the dominant tradition, which maintains that the meaning of context-sensitive language is underspecified by grammar and that interpretation relies on non-linguistic cues and speakers' intentions, this book argues that meaning is determined entirely by discourse conventions, rules of language that have largelybeen missed and the effects of which have been mistaken for extra-linguistic effects of an utterance situation on meaning. The linguistic account of context developed here sheds a new light on the nature of linguistic content and the interaction between content and context. At the same time, itprovides a novel model of context that should constrain and help evaluate debates across many marc:subfields of philosophy where appeal to context has been common, often leading to surprising conclusions such as epistemology, ethics, value theory, metaphysics, metaethics, and logic |
| Beschreibung: | ix, 219 Seiten 484 Gramm (ohne Staub) |
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Contents Preface vii 1. Introduction 1 PART I. SO, WHAT IS A CONTEXT AND HOW DOES IT WORK? 2. The Model of a True Demonstrative: Extra-linguistic Effects on Situated Meaning 23 3. An Alleged Ambiguity and the Dynamics of Context-Change 33 4. Pointing Things Out: Prominence and the Attentional State of a Discourse 40 5. Context and Discourse Conventions 58 6. Interlude: Context and Common Ground 75 PARTII. CONTEXTUALIZING CONTENT 7. Content in Context 85 8. The Challenge: Non-propositionalism 95 9. Dynamic Propositionalism 113 PART III. THE LOGIC OF PROMINENCE 10. Content, Context, and Logic 143 11. Prominence Semantics for Modality 153 PART IV. CONCLUSIONS AND DIRECTIONS 12. The Grammar of Prominence 171
VI CONTENTS APPENDICES Appendix A. Formal Definitions for the Attention-Coherence Approach to Pronoun Resolution Appendix B. A Formal Language for Modality with Coherence 189 193 Bibliography Index ofNames Index of Terms 203 213 216
Natural languages are riddled with context-sensitivity. One and the same string ofwords can express many different meanings on occasion of use, and yet we understand one another effortlessly, on the fly. How do we do so ? What fixes the meaning of context-sensitive expressions, and how are we able to recover the meaning so effortlessly? This book offers a novel response: we can do so because we draw on a broad array of subtle linguistic conventions that determine the interpretation of context-sensitive items. Contrary to the dominant tradition, which maintains that the meaning of context-sensitive language is underspecified by grammar and that interpretation relies on non-linguistic cues and speakers’ intentions, this book argues that meaning is determined entirelv by discourse conventions, rules of language that have largely been missed and the effects of which have been mistaken for extra-linguistic effects of an utterance situation on meaning. The linguistic account of context developed here sheds new light on the nature of linguistic content and the interaction between content and context. At the same time, it provides a novel model of context that should constrain and help evaluate debates across many sub-fields of philosophy where appeal to context has been common, often leading to surprising conclusions, such as epistemologv, ethics, value theory, metaphysics, metaethics, and logic. |
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Contents Preface vii 1. Introduction 1 PART I. SO, WHAT IS A CONTEXT AND HOW DOES IT WORK? 2. The Model of a True Demonstrative: Extra-linguistic Effects on Situated Meaning 23 3. An Alleged Ambiguity and the Dynamics of Context-Change 33 4. Pointing Things Out: Prominence and the Attentional State of a Discourse 40 5. Context and Discourse Conventions 58 6. Interlude: Context and Common Ground 75 PARTII. CONTEXTUALIZING CONTENT 7. Content in Context 85 8. The Challenge: Non-propositionalism 95 9. Dynamic Propositionalism 113 PART III. THE LOGIC OF PROMINENCE 10. Content, Context, and Logic 143 11. Prominence Semantics for Modality 153 PART IV. CONCLUSIONS AND DIRECTIONS 12. The Grammar of Prominence 171
VI CONTENTS APPENDICES Appendix A. Formal Definitions for the Attention-Coherence Approach to Pronoun Resolution Appendix B. A Formal Language for Modality with Coherence 189 193 Bibliography Index ofNames Index of Terms 203 213 216
Natural languages are riddled with context-sensitivity. One and the same string ofwords can express many different meanings on occasion of use, and yet we understand one another effortlessly, on the fly. How do we do so ? What fixes the meaning of context-sensitive expressions, and how are we able to recover the meaning so effortlessly? This book offers a novel response: we can do so because we draw on a broad array of subtle linguistic conventions that determine the interpretation of context-sensitive items. Contrary to the dominant tradition, which maintains that the meaning of context-sensitive language is underspecified by grammar and that interpretation relies on non-linguistic cues and speakers’ intentions, this book argues that meaning is determined entirelv by discourse conventions, rules of language that have largely been missed and the effects of which have been mistaken for extra-linguistic effects of an utterance situation on meaning. The linguistic account of context developed here sheds new light on the nature of linguistic content and the interaction between content and context. At the same time, it provides a novel model of context that should constrain and help evaluate debates across many sub-fields of philosophy where appeal to context has been common, often leading to surprising conclusions, such as epistemologv, ethics, value theory, metaphysics, metaethics, and logic. |
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