Robert Stainton

Words and Thoughts

Subsentences, Ellipsis, and the Philosophy of Language

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

It is a near truism of philosophy of language that sentences are prior to words--that they are the only things that fundamentally have meaning. Robert's Stainton's study interrogates this idea, drawing on a wide body of evidence to argue that speakers can and do use mere words, not sentences, to communicate complex thoughts.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press (UK)
• Seitenzahl: 262
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Oktober 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 544g
• ISBN-13: 9780199250387
• ISBN-10: 0199250383
• Artikelnr.: 22224895

Inhaltsangabe

PART ONE: THE APPEARANCES AND SOME BACKGROUND
1: 1. Introduction: The appearances, and what they might mean
2: Further Background Issues
PART TWO: THE GENUINENESS ISSUE
3: Not A Full-fledged Speech Act?
4: Extra-Grammatical Manoeuvres
5: Semantic Ellipsis
6: Syntactic Ellipsis
7: A Divide and Conquer Strategy
8: A Positive Representational-Pragmatic View
PART THREE: IMPLICATIONS
9: Language--Thought Relations
10: Sentence Primacy
11: The Sentences, Assertion and the Semantics-Pragmatics Boundary