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OUP CORRECTED PROOF – FINAL, 06/29/2018, SPi Beyond Semantics and Pragmatics OUP CORRECTED PROOF – FINAL, 06/29/2018, SPi OUP CORRECTED PROOF – FINAL, 06/29/2018, SPi Beyond Semantics and Pragmatics edited by Gerhard Preyer 1 OUP CORRECTED PROOF – FINAL, 06/29/2018, SPi 3 Great Clarendon Street, Oxford, OX2 6DP, United Kingdom Oxford University Press is a department of the University of Oxford. It furthers the University’s objective of excellence in research, scholarship, and education by publishing worldwide. Oxford is a registered trade mark of Oxford University Press in the UK and in certain other countries © the several contributors 2018 The moral rights of the authors have been asserted First Edition published in 2018 Impression: 1 All rights reserved. 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Oxford disclaims any responsibility for the materials contained in any third party website referenced in this work. OUP CORRECTED PROOF – FINAL, 06/29/2018, SPi Contents List of Contributors vii Introduction: Linguistic Structure and Meaning 1 Gerhard Preyer Part I. Explaining Pragmatic Phenomena 1. Two Questions about Interpretive Effects 9 Robert J. Stainton and Christopher Viger 2. Exaggeration and Invention 32 Kent Bach 3. Calculability, Convention, and Conversational Implicature 49 Wayne A. Davis 4. Presupposition Triggering and Disambiguation 78 Adam Sennet 5. Discourse, Context, and Coherence: The Grammar of Prominence 97 Una Stojnić 6. Socializing Pragmatics 125 William B. Starr Part II. Intentions and the Limits of Meaning 7. Varieties of Intentionalism 147 Jessica Keiser 8. Showing, Expressing, and Figuratively Meaning 157 Mitchell Green 9. Taking Perspective 174 Madeleine Arseneault 10. Perspectives and Slurs 187 Claudia Bianchi Part III. Cognitive Science Connections 11. Composing Meaning and Thinking 201 Roberto G. de Almeida OUP CORRECTED PROOF – FINAL, 06/29/2018, SPi vi Contents 12. About Convention and Grammar 230 Michael Glanzberg 13. On Convention and Coherence 261 Andrew Kehler and Jonathan Cohen 14. Convention, Intention, and the Conversational Record 284 Mandy Simons Part IV. New Frontiers in Semantics 15. Issues for Meaning: Conventions, Intentions, and Coherence 305 Ernie Lepore and Matthew Stone Index 319 OUP CORRECTED PROOF – FINAL, 06/29/2018, SPi List of Contributors Madeleine Arseneault, Philosophy, Suny—The State University of New York at New Paltz, New York Kent Bach, Philosophy, San Francisco State University Claudia Bianchi, Philosophy, Università Vita-Salute San Raffaele, Milano Jonathan Cohen, Philosophy, University of California San Diego Wayne A. Davis, Philosophy, Georgetown University Roberto G. de Almeida, Psychology, Concordia University, Montreal Michael Glanzberg, Philosophy, Northwestern University, Illinois Mitchell Green, Philosophy, University of Connecticut Andrew Kehler, Linguistics, University of California, San Diego Jessica Keiser, Philosophy, Yale University Ernie Lepore, Philosophy and Cognitive Science, Rutgers University, New Jersey Gerhard Preyer, Sociology, Goethe-Universität, Frankfurt am Main Adam Sennet, Philosophy, University of California, Davis Mandy Simons, Linguistics and Philosophy, Carnegie Mellon University Robert J. Stainton, Philosophy, Western University, Ontario William B. Starr, Philosophy, Cornell Philosophy, New York Una Stojnić, Philosophy, Columbia University, New York Matthew Stone, Computer Science, Rutgers University, New Jersey Christopher Viger, Philosophy, Western University, Ontario OUP CORRECTED PROOF – FINAL, 06/29/2018, SPi OUP CORRECTED PROOF – FINAL, 06/29/2018, SPi Introduction Linguistic Structure and Meaning Gerhard Preyer The study of meaning in language embraces a diverse range of problems and methods. Philosophers think through the relationship between language and the world; linguists document speakers’ knowledge of meaning; psychologists investigate the mechanisms of understanding and production. Up through the early 2000s, these investigations were generally compartmentalized: indeed, researchers often regarded both the sub- ject matter and the methods of other disciplines with skepticism. Since then, however, there has been a sea change in the field, enabling researchers increasingly to synthesize the perspectives of philosophy, linguistics, and psychology and to energize all the fields with rich new intellectual perspectives that facilitate meaningful interchange. One illustration of the trend is the publication of Lepore and Stone’s Imagination and Convention, an integrative interdisciplinary survey—though perhaps an opinionated and idiosyncratic one—of research on meaning, inference, and communication. The time is right for a broader exploration and reflection on the status and problems of semantics as an interdisciplinary enterprise, in light of a decade of challenging and successful research in this area. This book aims to reconcile different methodological perspectives while refocusing semanticists on the new problems where integrative work will find the broadest and most receptive audience. The following themes figure prominently in the volume: • Making sense of the fundamental concepts of meaning. We have in mind such notions as grammar, context, reference and speech acts, which require the precision of philosophical analysis but must accommodate linguistic data and comport with psychological models of language acquisition and processing. • Delimiting the scope of semantics. New philosophical arguments, emerging cross-linguistic fieldwork, and new probabilistic models of language processing challenge researchers to rethink how much of the interpretation of language is due to linguistic knowledge and how much is due to indirection, strategizing, and mind reading.
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