Showing posts with label Lepore. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Lepore. Show all posts
Monday, October 30, 2006
Herman Cappelen and Ernie Lepore, "On an Alleged Connection Between Indirect Speech and the Theory of Meaning"
The mistaken assumption (MA) shared by almost all semantics is that indirect reports of what is said are relevant to the semantic content of sentences. Reports of what is said are deeply context sensitive (both to features of the context of utterance and to features of the reporting context), whereas semantic content is supposed to reflect context-invariant features of linguistic activity.
Tuesday, September 26, 2006
Ernest Lepore, "What Model Theoretic Semantics Cannot Do"
Model Theoretic Semantics (MTS) does not constitute a substantial advance over Structured Semantics (SS), because knowledge of MTS doesn't suffice for knowledge of the meaning of sentences of the target language. Supplementing MTS with knowledge of which world is the actual world would suffice for knowing the meaning of target language sentences, but knowing which world is the actual world is beyond the ken of speakers of a language.
Herman Cappelen and Ernest Lepore, Insensitive Semantics
Sustained attack on moderate and radical contextualism, plus exposition of C&L's pluralistic minimalism.
Herman Cappelen and Ernest Lepore, "Shared Content"
Contextualism makes it difficult to understand how inter-contextual communication is possible; semantic minimalism and speech-act pluralism explain both our intuitions about contextual variation in what is said as well as our intuitions that we can share content across contexts.
Labels:
Cappelen,
communication,
contextualism,
Lepore
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