Showing posts with label minimalism. Show all posts
Showing posts with label minimalism. Show all posts
Sunday, October 01, 2006
Francois Recanati, "Predelli and Carpintero on Literal Meaning"
Recanati's primary opponent in Literal Meaning is the minimalist, who argues that the only role of context in the determination of truth conditional content is to give values to conventionally, linguistically encoded sentence elements (indexicals, e.g.); he tries to show that that isn't enought to account for all the uses of sentences with intuitive truth conditional contents (loosening, metonymy, semantic extension, etc.).
Labels:
Carpintero,
literal meaning,
minimalism,
Predelli,
Recanati
Friday, September 29, 2006
Siobhan Chapman, "In Defense of a Code: Linguistic Meaning and Propositionality in Verbal Communication"
Criticisizes unclarity in standard accounts of the domain of semantics; recommends a minimalist approach to truth conditions, where minimal truth conditions are encoded by linguistic meaning, and these very broad truth conditions constrain the truth conditions of what is expressed in an utterance of a sentence by requiring the truth conditions of the uttered sentence to be a subset of the worlds in which the linguistically encoded proposition is true.
Labels:
Chapman,
communication,
minimalism,
truth conditions
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