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How To Do Things With Little Talking Tubes: Nonideal Speech Acts In The Digital Age, Anthony Holdier
How To Do Things With Little Talking Tubes: Nonideal Speech Acts In The Digital Age, Anthony Holdier
Graduate Theses and Dissertations
In this work, I develop a view about what it means to share a social or conversational context with others, as well as what is normatively entailed by doing so. Working from a broadly Austinian perspective about the moral foundations of language use and how we use words to position ourselves within social space, as well as from a generally Stalnakerian social ontology (demarcating groups by dint of aligned or overlapping sets of commitments), I present three papers demonstrating how nonidealized, ordinary language philosophy can make sense of complex, real-world phenomena. Through analyses of heretical utterances, context collapse, and chatbot …
Pragmatics In English, By Kate Scott, Robert Stainton
Pragmatics In English, By Kate Scott, Robert Stainton
Philosophy Publications
Book review of Kate Scott's 2023 Cambridge University Press book
Speakers And Addressees As Creative Interpreters, Svitlana Novikova
Speakers And Addressees As Creative Interpreters, Svitlana Novikova
Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects
Philosophers in the past have argued that the way the word “interpret” is used within creative fields unhelpfully conflates the notions of deriving and creating content. Arguing against this, I propose that the blurring of these two notions accurately describes how addressees interpret speakers, performers interpret scores, and audiences interpret art and music. Even speakers can be described as creative interpreters in this sense, as articulating a thought into an utterance requires an interpretive effort. I develop the idea that interpreting straddles the divide between deriving and creating content within the framework of the ostensive-inferential communication proposed by Sperber and …
Unarticulated Constituents And Theories Of Meaning, Jesse Rappaport
Unarticulated Constituents And Theories Of Meaning, Jesse Rappaport
Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects
This work is an investigation into a phenomenon introduced by John Perry that I call ‘totally unarticulated constituents.’ These are entities that are part of the propositional content of a speech act, but are not represented by any part of the sentence uttered or of the thought that is being expressed - that is, they are fully unarticulated. After offering a novel definition of this phenomenon, I argue that totally unarticulated constituents are attested in natural language, and may in fact be quite common. This raises fatal problems for a prominent theory of underspecification defended by Jason Stanley, according to …
Two Questions About Interpretive Effects, Robert Stainton, Christopher Viger
Two Questions About Interpretive Effects, Robert Stainton, Christopher Viger
Philosophy Publications
We discuss central themes in Lepore and Stone's Imagination and Convention. We begin by laying out their view, and then pose both empirical and methodological criticisms.
Semantic Holism Revisited, Chun-Ping Yen
Semantic Holism Revisited, Chun-Ping Yen
Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects
I defend semantic holism, the view that the meaning of an expression is determined by its relations to every other expression in the language of individual competent users. I argue that, once properly understood, most disadvantages attributed to holism can be dissolved and suggest that the core division between the holist and the non-holist is on the question whether invariant meanings shared across all possible occasions where the corresponded expressions are uttered are necessary for the explanation of meaning sharing. I give reason why the answer is negative and demonstrate how to explain our linguistic interaction without such invariant meanings.
Cuasi Factivos, Axel Barcelo Aspeitia, Robert Stainton
Cuasi Factivos, Axel Barcelo Aspeitia, Robert Stainton
Philosophy Publications
We introduce a construction which we label 'quasi-factive'. They are heard like factives, in that we immediately take the complement to be true. Yet they aren't really factive at all. Examples include: 'It's not widely known that Marta was born in Canada' (because she was born in Uruguay); 'Don't tell anyone that Carlos will run as a candidate' (because he won't); 'Did it bother Jane that Miguel came?' (no, because Miguel didn't come). We identify sub-categories of our quasi-factives, and then tentatively explore a pragmatic explanation of how they work their magic.
Brevity, By Laurence Goldstein, Monica Mcmillan, Robert Stainton
Brevity, By Laurence Goldstein, Monica Mcmillan, Robert Stainton
Philosophy Publications
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