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Mental Files in Flux
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 196

Mental Files in Flux

François Recanati has pioneered the 'mental file' framework for thinking about concepts and how we refer to the world in thought and language. He now explores what happens to mental files in a dynamic setting: Recanati argues that communication involves interpersonal dynamic files.

Literal Meaning
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 192

Literal Meaning

This is a provocative contribution to the current debate about the best delimitation of semantics and pragmatics. Is 'What is said' determined by linguistic conventions, or is it an aspect of 'speaker's meaning'? Do we need pragmatics to fix truth-conditions? What is 'literal meaning'? To what extent is semantic composition a creative process? How pervasive is context-sensitivity? Recanati provides an original and insightful defence of 'contextualism', and offers an informed survey of the spectrum of positions held by linguists and philosophers working at the semantics/pragmatics interface.

Mental Files
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 295

Mental Files

François Recanati presents his theory of mental files, a new way of understanding reference in language and thought. Linguistic expressions inherit their reference from the files that we associate with them, which are classified according to their function, which is to store information derived through certain types of relation to objects.

Truth-conditional Pragmatics
  • Language: en

Truth-conditional Pragmatics

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2010
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  • Publisher: Unknown

Recanati argues against the traditional understanding of the semantics/pragmatics divide. Through half a dozen case studies, he shows that 'pragmatic modulation' interacts with the grammar-driven process of semantic composition. As a result, what an utterance says cannot be neatly separated from what the speaker means.

Truth-Conditional Pragmatics
  • Language: en

Truth-Conditional Pragmatics

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2010-11-11
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  • Publisher: OUP Oxford

Recanati argues against the traditional understanding of the semantics/pragmatics divide. Through half a dozen case studies, he shows that 'pragmatic modulation' interacts with the grammar-driven process of semantic composition. As a result, what an utterance says cannot be neatly separated from what the speaker means.

Mental Files
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 282

Mental Files

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2012
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Perspectival Thought
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 319

Perspectival Thought

Recanati examines the nature of thought and understanding, and defends the idea that truth is relative to context. The book will be of interest to those working in philosophy of language and linguistics, as well as philosophers of mind epistemologists, and psychologists and cognitive scientists.

Immunity to Error Through Misidentification
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 305

Immunity to Error Through Misidentification

  • Categories: Law

Devoted exclusively to the topic, this book analyses immunity to error through misidentification as an important feature of personal judgments.

Literal Meaning
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 179

Literal Meaning

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2004
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  • Publisher: Unknown

Do we need pragmatics to fix truth-conditions? What is 'literal meaning'? To what extent is semantic composition a creative process? How pervasive is context-sensitivity? François Recanati defends 'contextualism' and offers an informed survey of the spectrum of positions held by linguists and philosophers working at the semantics/pragmatics interface.

Direct Reference
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 436

Direct Reference

This volume puts forward a distinct new theory of direct reference, blending insights from both the Fregean and the Russellian traditions, and fitting the general theory of language understanding used by those working on the pragmatics of natural language