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Semantics versus Pragmatics

 
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Leading scholars in the philosophy of language and theoretical linguistics present brand-new papers on a major topic at the intersection of the two fields, the distinction between semantics and pragmatics. Anyone engaged with this issue in either discipline will find much to reward their attention here. Contributors: Kent Bach, Herman Cappelen, Michael Glanzberg, Jeffrey C. King, Ernie Lepore, Stephen Neale, F. Recanati, Nathan Salmon, Mandy Simons, Scott Soames, Robert J. Stainton, Jason Stanley, Zoltan Gendler Szabo

Table of Contents
1    Context ex Machina    15

2    Radical and moderate pragmatics : does meaning determine truth conditions?    45

3    Focus : a case study on the semantics-pragmatics boundary    72

4    Semantics, pragmatics, and the role of semantic content    111

5    Pragmatism and binding    165

6    Deixis and anaphora    286

7    Two conceptions of semantics    317

8    Presupposition and relevance    329

9    Naming and asserting    356

10    In defense of non-sentential assertion    383



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