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From Utterances to Speech Acts

By Mikhail Kissine

"Kissine offers a new theory of speech acts which is philosophically sophisticated and builds on work in cognitive science, formal semantics, and linguistic typology. This highly readable, brilliant essay is a major contribution to the field."

--François Recanati, Institut Jean-Nicod


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Title: Compositionality, Context and Semantic Values
Subtitle: Essays in Honour of Ernie Lepore
Edited By: Robert J Stainton
Christopher Viger
URL: http://www.springer.com/978-1-4020-8309-9
Series Title: Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy
Description:

> Topic is absolutely central to contemporary philosophy of language > Celebrates the work of renowned philosopher of language Ernie Lepore

Are natural languages genuinely compositional? What roles does context play in linguistic communication, and by what means? In particular, does context interfere with the compositional determination of truth conditions? What meanings should theorists assign to sentences if compositionality is to be retained? These are the central questions of this important volume of new philosophical essays in honour of Ernie Lepore.

Publication Year: 2009
Publisher: Springer
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Linguistic Field(s): Philosophy of Language
Semantics

Versions:
Format: Hardback
ISBN: 1402083092
ISBN-13: 9781402083099
Pages: 284
Prices: U.S. $ 219.00
U.K. £ 101.50
Europe EURO 134.95