Liberating Content
Herman Cappelen and Ernie Lepore
Abstract
This book brings together two series of papers: one began the authors' 1997 paper ‘On an Alleged Connection between the Theory of Meaning and Indirect Speech’. The other series started with their 1997 paper ‘Varieties of Quotation’. The central theme throughout is that only when communicative content is liberated from semantic content will we make progress in understanding language, communication, contexts, and their interconnection. These are the papers in which the authors introduced speech act pluralism and semantic minimalism, and they provide the foundation for one of the most powerful at ... More
This book brings together two series of papers: one began the authors' 1997 paper ‘On an Alleged Connection between the Theory of Meaning and Indirect Speech’. The other series started with their 1997 paper ‘Varieties of Quotation’. The central theme throughout is that only when communicative content is liberated from semantic content will we make progress in understanding language, communication, contexts, and their interconnection. These are the papers in which the authors introduced speech act pluralism and semantic minimalism, and they provide the foundation for one of the most powerful attacks on contextualism in twentieth-century philosophy.
Keywords:
semantic minimalism,
speech act pluralism,
quotation,
philosophy,
language,
Davidson
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2015 |
Print ISBN-13: 9780199641338 |
| Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: January 2016 |
DOI:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199641338.001.0001 |
Authors
Affiliations are at time of print publication.
Herman Cappelen, author
University of Oslo
Ernie Lepore, author
Rutgers University
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