Literal Meaning

François Recanati provides an original defense of contextualism in contribution to the current debate about the best definition 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 offers an informed survey of the spectrum of positions held by linguists and philosophers working at the semantics/pragmatics interface.

Author: François Recanati
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 01/12/2004
Pages: 188
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.68lbs
Size: 8.94h x 6.46w x 0.48d
ISBN: 9780521537360

About the Author
Recanati, François: - François Recanati is a Research Director at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS, Paris). He has published many papers and several books on the philosophy of language and mind, including Meaning and Force (Cambridge, 1988), Direct Reference (1993), and Oratio Obliqua, Oratio Recta (2000). He is also co-founder and past President of the European Society for Analytic Philosophy.

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