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Context and coherence : the logic and grammar of prominence
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ISBN: 0191897825 0192634828 9780192634825 9780198865469 Year: 2021 Publisher: Oxford Oxford University Press

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Natural languages are riddled with context-sensitivity. One and the same string of words can express many different meanings on occasion of use, and yet we understand one another effortlessly, on the fly. How do we do so? What fixes the meaning of context-sensitive expressions, and how are we able to recover the meaning so effortlessly?This book offers a novel response: we can do so because we draw on a broad array of subtle linguistic conventions that determine the interpretation of context-sensitive items. Contrary to the dominant tradition, which maintains that the meaning of context-sensitive language is underspecified by grammar and that interpretation relies on non-linguistic cues and speakers' intentions, this book argues that meaning is determined entirely by discourse conventions, rules of language that have largelybeen missed and the effects of which have been mistaken for extra-linguistic effects of an utterance situation on meaning. The linguistic account of context developed here sheds a new light on the nature of linguistic content and the interaction between content and context. At the same time, itprovides a novel model of context that should constrain and help evaluate debates across many subfields of philosophy where appeal to context has been common, often leading to surprising conclusions such as epistemology, ethics, value theory, metaphysics, metaethics, and logic.

Contextualism in philosophy : knowledge, meaning, and truth
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ISBN: 0199267413 9780199267415 0199267405 9780199267408 Year: 2005 Publisher: Oxford: Clarendon,


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Beyond 'Any' and 'Ever' : new explorations in negative polarity sensitivity
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ISBN: 9783110303728 9783110305234 3110305232 3110303728 Year: 2013 Publisher: Berlin : De Gruyter,

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The grammar of negative polarity items is one of the challengesfor linguistic theory. NPIs cross-cut all traditional categories in grammar and semantics, yet their distribution is by no means arbitrary. Theories of NPI licensing have been proposed in terms of syntax, semantics, and pragmatics - each with its own merits and problems. The volume comprises state-of-the-art studies and suggests an interpolation approach to NPI licensing.

Practical contexts
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ISBN: 311032086X 9783110320862 9783937202617 3937202617 3110320606 9783110320602 3937202617 9783110320602 1299724418 Year: 2004 Volume: Bd. 8 Publisher: Frankfurt ; New Brunswick : Ontos Verlag,

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The thought and the findings of moral particularism are extended to contextualism. Moral particularism asserts that reasons for moral actions are not governed by general principles, but by a mixture of situation bound deliberation and values. Particularism was established in the area of moral philosophy and its main results include delimitation with various forms of moral generalism. Many insights were accumulated along the way. The book claims that a serious contextualist approach needs to embrace particularist normativity. Thesis is then applied to the traditional areas of philosophy such as semantics, epistemology and ontology. This makes it possible to ask questions about the positive and not just negative story and about the wider impact of particularism. The book is an attempt of such a positive story. Foundations are laid for an exciting new field of research in the main systematic branches of philosophy, urging you to rethink the normative basis of semantics, epistemology and metaphysics, in their interweaving with moral thought. The importance of narration and of phenomenology is stressed for these areas.

Recontextualizing context : grammaticality meets appropriateness
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ISBN: 1282160605 9786612160608 9027295719 9789027295712 9027253633 9789027253637 9781588115102 1588115100 1588115100 Year: 2004 Publisher: Amsterdam: Benjamins,

Negative contexts : collocation, polarity and multiple negation
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ISBN: 0415138493 1138868280 1134773331 0585448094 0203437632 1280109955 9780585448091 9780203437636 9780415138499 1134773323 Year: 1997 Volume: 1 Publisher: London ; New York : Routledge,

Co-texte et calcul du sens: actes de la table ronde tenue à Caen les 2 et 3 février 1996
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ISBN: 2841330060 Year: 1997 Publisher: Caen Presses universitaires de Caen


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Les mots et leurs contextes
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ISBN: 2878542932 287854949X 9782878542936 Year: 2003 Volume: 18 Publisher: Paris: Presses de la Sorbonne Nouvelle,

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Comment aborder la construction du sens des mots dans les discours spécialisés, didactiques et ordinaires ? Quelles sont les procédures sous-jacentes à la création lexicale ? Comment s'opèrent l'identification, la transmission et l'interprétation du sens et des savoirs ? C'est à ces questions fondamentales que tente de répondre cet ouvrage qui réunit dix textes de Fabienne Cusin-Berche autour de l'usage que l'on fait des mots en contexte.

Language, text and context: essays in stylistics
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ISBN: 0415069955 0415056462 9780415069953 Year: 1992 Publisher: London: Routledge,

Le contexte en sémantique
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ISSN: 07791666 ISBN: 9068319159 9789068319156 Year: 1997 Volume: 89 Publisher: Louvain-la-Neuve: Peeters,

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