Discourse contextualism : a framework for contextualist semantics and pragmatics /
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| Author / Creator: | Silk, Alex, author. |
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| Edition: | First edition. |
| Imprint: | Oxford ; New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2016. |
| Description: | vii, 255 pages ; 24 cm |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10881724 |
Table of Contents:
- Acknowledgments
- 1. Introduction: CR-Expressions and Discourse Contextualism
- Part I. Discourse Contextualism: An Application to Epistemic Modals
- 2. Accommodation and Negotiation with Context-Sensitive Expressions
- 2.1. Epistemic Modals and Discourse Disagreement
- 2.2. Insufficient Replies
- 2.2.1. The Varieties of Linguistic Denial. Metacontextual Negotiation
- 2.2.2. Epistemic Modals in a Language Game
- 2.2.3. Recap
- 2.3. Accommodation and Negotiation with Paradigm Context-Sensitive Expressions
- 2.4. A Way Forward
- 2.5. Managing the Context: Toward Discourse Contextualism
- 3. Discourse Contextualism I: Epistemic Modals in Discourse
- 3.1. Components 1 and 2: From Formal Semantics to Interpretive Constraints
- 3.2. Component 3: Using Epistemic Modals. The Basic Account
- 3.3. Features
- 3.3.1. Justified Use
- 3.3.2. Locus of Disagreement
- 3.3.3. Discourse-Oriented Effects
- 3.3.4. Expressing States of Mind
- 3.3.5. Expressive vs. Intuitively Contextualist Uses
- 3.3.6. Anaphoric Properties. Contextual Underspecification
- 3.3.7. Recap
- 3.4. More Data: Retraction and Eavesdroppers
- 3.4.1. Retraction
- 3.4.2. Eavesdroppers and Inter-Conversational Disagreement
- 3.5. Aside: Presupposition and Epistemic Modals
- 3.5.1. "Assuming" Values for Variables?
- 3.5.2. Presupposition and Non-Monotonic Updates
- 3.5.3. A Presupposition of Commonality?
- 3.6. Truth
- 3.7. Recap
- 4. Discourse Contextualism II: How to Embed an Epistemic Modal
- 4.1. Embedding Problems
- 4.1.1. First-Order States of Mind
- 4.1.2. Obligatory Shifting
- 4.1.3. Epistemic Contradictions
- 4.1.4. Inferences
- 4.1.5. Factive Attitudes
- 4.2. Embedding Solutions
- 4.2.1. First-Order States of Mind
- 4.2.2. Obligatory Shifting
- 4.2.3. Epistemic Contradictions
- 4.2.4. Inferences
- 4.2.5. Factive Attitudes
- 4.2.6. Recap
- 4.3. Aside: Contextualism and Relativist Content
- 4.4. A Challenge Revisited: Epistemic Modals and Paradigm Context-Sensitive Expressions
- 4.5. Recap
- Part II. Discourse Contextualism: Extensions
- 5. Extension I: Deontic Modals
- 5.1. Introduction
- 5.2. Deontic Modals in Discourse
- 5.2.1. Contextualism about Deontic Modals
- 5.2.2. Agreeing and Disagreeing with Normative Language
- 5.2.3. A Discourse Contextualist Account
- 5.2.4. Features
- 5.2.5. Uncertainty and Indecision in Normative Inquiry
- 5.2.6. Recap
- 5.3. Embedded Contexts and Normative Thought
- 5.3.1. Attitudes and Attitude Ascriptions
- 5.3.2. CR-Contradictions?
- 5.4. Realism and Normative Truth
- 5.5. Recap
- 5.6. Information-Sensitivity
- 6. Extension II: Gradable Adjectives and Degree Vagueness
- 6.1. Introduction
- 6.2. Gradable Adjectives in Discourse
- 6.2.1. Standards and Scoreboards
- 6.2.2. Discourse Dynamics
- 6.2.3. Attitude Ascriptions
- 6.2.4. Recap
- 6.3. Vagueness as Contextual Indecision
- 6.3.1. The Sorites
- 6.3.2. Vagueness, Meaning, and Use
- 6.3.3. Logic, Metaphysics, and Epistemology of Vagueness
- 6.3.4. Vagueness in Language and Thought
- 6.4. Conclusion
- 6.4.1. Beyond Gradable Adjectives
- 6.4.2. Higher-Order Vagueness
- 6.4.3. Vagueness and Degree Semantics
- 7. Extension III: Predicates of Personal Taste and Evaluation
- 7.1. Three Sources of Context-Sensitivity
- 7.2. Matters of Taste in Discourse and Thought
- 7.3. Vagueness with PPTs
- 7.4. Adjectives of Normative and Epistemic Evaluation
- 7.5. Taste and Normative Evaluation
- 7.6. 'Find' and "Subjectivity"
- 7.7. Recap
- Appendix: Taxonomy
- Bibliography
- Index
