Insensitive Semantics: A Defense of Semantic Minimalism and Speech ACT Pluralism

by Herman Cappele, Ernest Lepore, Herman Cappelen

Book Overview

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 contextualism Addresses broad...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1405126752
• ISBN13: 9781405126755
• Release Date: January 2005
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
• Length: 219 Pages
• Weight: 0.83 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.3" x 9.0"