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Two Questions About Interpretive Effects, Robert J. Stainton, Christopher Viger
Two Questions About Interpretive Effects, Robert J. Stainton, Christopher Viger
Robert J. Stainton
Cuasi Factivos, Axel Barcelo Aspeitia, Robert J. Stainton
Cuasi Factivos, Axel Barcelo Aspeitia, Robert J. Stainton
Robert J. Stainton
Brevity, By Laurence Goldstein, Monica Mcmillan, Robert J. Stainton
Brevity, By Laurence Goldstein, Monica Mcmillan, Robert J. Stainton
Robert J. Stainton
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Herder And Pragmatics, Robert J. Stainton
Shorthand, Syntactic Ellipsis, And The Pragmatic Determinants Of What Is Said, Reinaldo Elugardo, Robert J. Stainton
Shorthand, Syntactic Ellipsis, And The Pragmatic Determinants Of What Is Said, Reinaldo Elugardo, Robert J. Stainton
Robert J. Stainton
Our first aim in this paper is to respond to four novel objections in Jason Stanley's 'Context and Logical Form'. Taken together, those objections attempt to debunk our prior claims that one can perform a genuine speech act by using a sub‐sentential expression—where by 'sub‐sentential expression' we mean an ordinary word or phrase, not embedded in any larger syntactic structure. Our second aim is to make it plausible that, pace Stanley, there really are pragmatic determinants of the literal truth‐conditional content of speech acts. We hope to achieve this second aim precisely by defending the genuineness of sub‐sentential speech acts. …
Unembedded Definite Descriptions And Relevance, Robert J. Stainton
Unembedded Definite Descriptions And Relevance, Robert J. Stainton
Robert J. Stainton
Definite descriptions (e.g. 'The king of France in 1997', 'The teacher of Aristotle') do not stand for particulars. Or so I will assume. The semantic alternative has seemed to be that descriptions only have meaning within sentences: i.e., that their semantic contribution is given syncategorimatically. This doesn't seem right, however, because descriptions can be used and understood outside the context of any sentence. Nor is this use simply a matter of "ellipsis." Since descriptions do not denote particulars, but seem to have a meaning in isolation, I propose that they be assigned generalized quantifiers as denotations — i.e. a kind …