Overview
- 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
Part of the book series: Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy (SLAP, volume 103)
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Table of contents (16 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
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, UKEditors and Affiliations
About the editors
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.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Architecture of Context and Context-Sensitivity
Book Subtitle: Perspectives from Philosophy, Linguistics and Logic
Editors: Tadeusz Ciecierski, Paweł Grabarczyk
Series Title: Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-34485-6
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-34484-9Published: 26 February 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-34487-0Published: 26 February 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-34485-6Published: 25 February 2020
Series ISSN: 0924-4662
Series E-ISSN: 2215-034X
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 319
Number of Illustrations: 31 b/w illustrations
Topics: Semantics, Philosophy of Language, Cognitive Linguistics, Philosophy of Mind