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- ISBN 10: 0191047422
- ISBN 13: 9780191047428
- Author: Herman Cappelen
Context and Communication offers an introduction to a central theme in the study of language: the various ways in which what we say (or ask, or think) depends on the context of speech and thought. The period since 1970 has produced a vast literature on this topic, both by philosophers and by linguists. It is one of the areas of philosophy (and linguistics) where most progress has been made over the last few decades. This book explores some of the central data, questions, concepts, and theories of context sensitivity. It is written to be accessible to someone with no prior knowledge of the material or, indeed, any prior knowledge of philosophy, and is ideal for use as part of a philosophy of language course by students of philosophy or linguistics. Context and Communication is the first in the series Contemporary Introductions to Philosophy of Language.
Table of contents:
Part I. Context Sensitivity: Variability vs. Stability
Part II. Theories of Context Sensitivity
Part III. Contexts: What They Are and How We Create Them
Part I. Context Sensitivity: Variability vs. Stability
1. Contextual Variability
1.1 The Basic Cases: Variability and Stability
1.2 Context Sensitivity Beyond the Basic Set
1.3 Radical Contextualism_ The View that Every Word is Context Sensitive
Comprehension Questions
Exploratory Questions
2. Stability Across Contexts
2.1 Where We Are and the Plan for This Chapter
2.2 Three Arguments for Stability
Comprehension Questions
Exploratory Questions
3. Some Strategies for Reconciling Stability and Variability
3.1 Where We Are and the Plan for This Chapter
3.2 First Strategy for Resolving the Puzzle: Stability is an Illusion and We Can Expect No More Than Similarity
3.3 Second Strategy for Resolving the Puzzle: Contextual Parasites Give Us Stability without Denying Radical Variability
3.4 Third Strategy for Resolving the Puzzle: Minimalistic Pluralism
Comprehension Questions
Exploratory Questions
Part II. Theories of Context Sensitivity
4. What is a Theory of Meaning?
4.1 Where We Are and the Plan for This Chapter
4.2 What Are We Trying to Do with a Theory Of Meaning?
4.3 What is Said and Truth Conditions
4.4 Possible Worlds
4.5 Compositionality
4.6 Truth and Consequences
4.7 Rigidity
4.8 Semantics and Pragmatics
Comprehension Questions
Exploratory Questions
5. Character and Content
5.1 Where We Are and the Plan for This Chapter
5.2 Kaplanian Theory of Meaning
5.3 Philosophical Payoffs of the Character–Content Distinction
5.4 Monsters and Rigidity
Comprehension Questions
Exploratory Questions
6. Indexed Truth Accounts: An Alternative to Kaplan
6.1 Where We Are and the Plan for This Chapter
6.2 Kaplan, Content, and the Operator Argument
6.3 Indexed Truth Theories
6.4 Two Problems for Indexed Truth Accounts
7. The Problem of Rigidity: Double Indexing and Monsters
7.1 Where We Are and the Plan for This Chapter
7.2 Fixing the Problem of Rigidity with Double Indexing
7.3 Character, Content, and Double Indexing
7.4 Are Monsters Evidence for Double Indexing?
Comprehension Questions
Exploratory Questions
8. The Problem of Same-Saying: Two Strategies
8.1 Where We Are and the Plan for This Chapter
8.2 Lewis’ Same-Saying Skepticism
8.3 Stalnaker and Contextual Subjectivism
8.4 Stalnaker, Updates, and Diagonals
8.5 Stalnaker and Dynamic Pragmatics
8.6 Final Thoughts on Formal Theorizing
Comprehension Questions
Exploratory Questions
Part III. Contexts: What They Are and How We Create Them
9. What are Contexts?
9.1 Where We Are and the Plan for This Chapter
9.2 Demonstratives and Context
9.3 Improper Contexts
Comprehension Questions
Exploratory Questions
10. More on Contextual Ingredients
10.1 Where We Are and the Plan for This Chapter
10.2 Gradable Adjectives
10.3 Epistemic ‘Mights’
10.4 You: Audience Sensitivity?
10.5 Presupposition
Comprehension Questions
Exploratory Questions
11. How Speech Creates Contexts: Negotiation and Accommodation
11.1 Where We Are and the Plan for This Chapter
11.2 Lewis on Accommodation and Black Magic: How Speech Creates Context
11.3 When We Don’t Accommodate: Negotiation
11.4 Why We Negotiate Over Meanings
11.5 Meaning Negotiation and Asymmetrical Power Relations
11.6 Asymmetrical Power Relations, Gender, Silencing, and Pornography
11.7 Negotiation and Accommodation: Creating Reality or Creating Meaning?
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