Title:
Truth-conditional pragmatics / François Récanati.
Main Entry:
Récanati, François, 1952-
Publisher:
Clarendon Press,
Publication Date:
c2010.
Publication Place:
Oxford ; New York :
ISBN:
9780199226993
0199226997
9780199226986 (pbk.)
0199226989 (pbk.)
Subject:
Pragmatics.
Speech acts (Linguistics).
Pragmatics -- Case studies.
Speech acts (Linguistics) -- Case studies.
Contents:
The old picture and the new -- Free pragmatic processes -- Alleged arguments against TCP: (1) Communication -- Alleged arguments against TCP: (2) Systematicity -- TCP vs Minimalism -- Pre-propositional pragmatics -- TCP as a form of Contextualism -- Defining 'Radical Contextualism' -- Unarticulated constituents -- Overview and acknowledgments -- Two types of rule -- Semantic flexibility -- Standing meaning vs occasion meaning -- Counterexamples -- Context-dependence -- Saturation and modulation -- Compositionality and modulation -- Is Contextualism a threat to compositionality? -- Two dogmas -- The intersectivity of relative adjectives -- The relativity of intersective adjectives -- Colour adjectives: saturation or modulation?
Preliminaries -- (Alleged) context-shifts in complex sentences -- Pretending that the context is different from what it is -- Two types of context and two types of context-shifting pretence -- Perspective point vs utterance point -- Shiftable indexicals -- Introduction -- Quotations as pictures -- Quotations as singular terms -- Mixed quotation -- Interpreting quotations: the pragmatic view -- In defence of the pragmatic view -- Conclusion -- The pragmatic view -- Sub-clausal open quotation: a multi-level analysis -- Interaction with semantic content: (1) free enrichment -- Interaction with semantic content: (2) context-shift -- Building the context-shift into the semantics -- Echoicity -- Mixed quotation: the cancellability issue -- Cancellation or disambiguation?.
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