The Architecture of Context and Context-Sensitivity
Perspectives from Philosophy, Linguistics and Logic
Editors: Ciecierski, Tadeusz, Grabarczyk, Paweł (Eds.)
Free Preview- Discusses a hotly-debated topic in the philosophy of language from a very broad perspective
- Offers contributions written by leading researchers from different disciplines: philosophy, linguistics and logic
- Combines different approaches to context into a unified narrative
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- About this book
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This volume addresses foundational issues of context-dependence and indexicality, which are at the center of the current debate within the philosophy of language. Topics include the scope of context-dependency, the nature of content and the character of input data of cognitive processes relevant for the interpretation of utterances. There's also coverage of the role of beliefs and intentions as contextual factors, as well as the validity of arguments in context-sensitive languages.
The contributions consider foundational issues regarding context-sensitivity from three different, yet related, perspectives on the phenomenon of context-dependence: representational, structural, and functional. The contributors not only address the representational, structural and/or functional problems separately but also study their mutual connections, thus furthering the debate and bringing competing approaches closer to unification and consensus. This text appeals to students and researchers within the field.
This is a very useful collection of essays devoted to the roles of context in the study of language. Its essays provide a useful overview of the current debates on this topic, and they put forth novel contributions that will undoubtedly be of relevance for the development of all areas in philosophy and linguistics interested in the notion of context.
Stefano Predelli
Department of Philosophy, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK
- About the authors
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Tadeusz Ciecierski is an Assistant Professor at the Institute of Philosophy, University of Warsaw. He is the President of the Polish Semiotic Society.
Paweł Grabarczyk is an Assistant Professor at the Institute of Philosophy, University of Lodz. He is the Editor-in-Chief of HYBRIS, The Internet Philosophical Magazine and is affiliated with the Centre for Philosophical Research.
- Table of contents (16 chapters)
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An Introduction: The Architecture of Context and Context-Sensitivity
Pages 1-13
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Utterance and Context
Pages 15-28
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Indirectness and Intentions in Metasemantics
Pages 29-53
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Speaker Intentions and Objective Metasemantics
Pages 55-79
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Speakers, Hearers and Demonstrative Reference
Pages 81-96
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Table of contents (16 chapters)
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Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- The Architecture of Context and Context-Sensitivity
- Book Subtitle
- Perspectives from Philosophy, Linguistics and Logic
- Editors
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- Tadeusz Ciecierski
- Paweł Grabarczyk
- Series Title
- Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy
- Series Volume
- 103
- Copyright
- 2020
- Publisher
- Springer International Publishing
- Copyright Holder
- Springer Nature Switzerland AG
- eBook ISBN
- 978-3-030-34485-6
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-3-030-34485-6
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-3-030-34484-9
- Series ISSN
- 0924-4662
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- X, 319
- Number of Illustrations
- 31 b/w illustrations
- Topics
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