Truth-Conditional Pragmatics

by François Recanati

Book Overview

Francois Recanati argues against the traditional understanding of the semantics/pragmatics divide and puts forward a radical alternative. Through half a dozen case studies, he shows that what an utterance says cannot be neatly separated from what the speaker means. In particular, the speaker's meaning endows words with senses that are tailored to the situation of utterance and depart from the conventional meanings carried by the words in isolation...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199226997
• ISBN13: 9780199226993
• Release Date: January 2011
• Publisher: OUP Oxford
• Length: 334 Pages
• Weight: 1.14 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.2" x 9.2"