Linguistic Pragmatism and Weather Reporting
John Collins
Mar 2020 · Oxford University Press
4,0star
1 yorumreport
E-kitap
240
Sayfa
family_home
Uygun
info
reportPuanlar ve yorumlar doğrulanmaz Daha Fazla Bilgi
Bu e-kitap hakkında
Linguistic pragmatism claims that what we literally say goes characteristically beyond what the linguistic properties themselves mandate. In this book, John Collins provides a novel defence of this doctrine, arguing that linguistic meaning alone fails to fix truth conditions. While this position is supported by a range of theorists, Collins shows that it naturally follows from a syntactic thesis concerning the relative sparseness of what language alone can provide to semantic interpretation. Language-and by extension meaning-provides constraints upon what a speaker can literally say, but does not characteristically encode any definite thing to say. Collins then defends this doctrine against a range of alternatives and objections, focusing in particular on an analysis of weather reports: 'it is raining/snowing/sunny'. Such reporting is mostly location-sensitive in the sense that the utterance is true or not depending upon whether it is raining/snowing/sunny at the location of the utterance, rather than some other location. Collins offers a full analysis of the syntax, semantics, and pragmatics of weather reports, including many novel data. He shows that the constructions lack the linguistic resources to support the common literal locative readings. Other related phenomena are discussed such as the Saxon genitive, colour predication, quantifier domain restriction, and object deletion.
Kullanıcı puanları ve yorumlar
4,0
1 yorum
Yazar hakkında
John Collins is Professor of Philosophy at the University of East Anglia. He mainly researches in the areas of philosophy of language and linguistic theory, but has written more broadly on the concept of truth and issues in philosophy of science and philosophy of mind. He is the author of many articles and two books, Chomsky: A Guide for the Perplexed (Bloomsbury 2008) and The Unity of Linguistic Meaning (Oxford 2011).
Bu e-kitaba puan verin
Düşüncelerinizi bizimle paylaşın.
Okuma bilgileri
Akıllı telefonlar ve tabletler
Android ve iPad/iPhone için Google Play Kitaplar uygulamasını yükleyin. Bu uygulama, hesabınızla otomatik olarak senkronize olur ve nerede olursanız olun çevrimiçi veya çevrimdışı olarak okumanıza olanak sağlar.
Dizüstü bilgisayarlar ve masaüstü bilgisayarlar
Bilgisayarınızın web tarayıcısını kullanarak Google Play'de satın alınan sesli kitapları dinleyebilirsiniz.
e-Okuyucular ve diğer cihazlar
Kobo eReader gibi e-mürekkep cihazlarında okumak için dosyayı indirip cihazınıza aktarmanız gerekir. Dosyaları desteklenen e-kitap okuyuculara aktarmak için lütfen ayrıntılı Yardım Merkezi talimatlarını uygulayın.
