TY - BOOK ID - 726093 TI - Subjective meaning : alternatives to relativism AU - Meier, Cécile AU - van Wijnbergen-Huitink, Janneke PY - 2016 VL - 559 SN - 9783110374728 9783110402001 9783110402117 3110402114 3110402009 9783110402018 3110402017 3110374722 PB - Berlin ; Boston Walter de Gruyter DB - UniCat KW - Lexicology. Semantics KW - Intersubjectivité KW - Implicite (linguistique) KW - Hypothèse de Sapir-Whorf KW - Subjectivity. KW - Relativity. KW - Relativism KW - Knowledge, Theory of KW - Reality KW - Relationism KW - Subjectivism KW - Relativity KW - Hypothèse de Sapir-Whorf. KW - Intersubjectivité. KW - Judgement. KW - Modal Verbs. KW - Semantics. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:726093 AB - A dish may be delicious, a painting beautiful, a piece of information justified. Whether the attributed properties "really" hold, seems to depend on somebody like a speaker or a group of people that share standards and background. Relativists and contextualists differ in where they locate the dependency theoretically. This book collects papers that corroborate the contextualist view that the dependency is part of the language. This volume contributes to the debate on relativism vs. contextualism. It comprises a collection of papers that take the problem of “faultless disagreement” as their starting point. The contributors all criticize the relativist view that the variability in subjective judgments necessitates the variability of the notion of truth dependent on a judge or assessor. They investigate the problem of faultless disagreement by investigating differences and similarities between subjective judgments with epistemic modals on the one hand and predicates of personal taste on the other. Importantly, they also draw on data beyond taste and knowledge, including data from language acquisition. The theoretical analyses are quite diverse. But all proposals are compatible with the contextualist view – that the variability in subjective judgments is an effect of how the meaning of an expression is understood. The volume is relevant for linguists and philosophers of language interested in the problem of faultless disagreement and the semantics and pragmatics of modals and adjectives. ER -