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Semantics vs. Pragmatics This page intentionally left blank Semantics vs. Pragmatics EDITED BY Zoltan Gendler Szabo CI.ARENDON PRESS • OXFORD This book has been printed digitally and produced in a standard specification in order to ensure its continuing availability OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS Great Clarendon Street, Oxford OX2 6DP Oxford University Press is a department ofthe University of Oxford. It furthers the University's objective of excellenee in research, scholarship, and education by publishing worldwide in Oxford New York Auckland Cape Town Dar es Salaam I long Kong Karachi Kuala I.umpur Madrid Melbourne Mexico City Nairobi New Delhi Shanghai Taipei Toronto With offices in Argentina Austria Brazil Chile Czech Republic France Greece Guatemala Hungary Italy Japan South Korea Poland Portugal Singapore Switzerland Thailand Turkey Ukraine Vietnam Oxford is a registered trade mark of Oxford University Press in the UK and in certain other countries Published in the United States by Oxford University Press Inc.. New York Oxford is a registered trade mark of Oxford University Press in the UK and in certain other countries Published in the United States by Oxford University Press Inc., New York © the several contributors 2005 The moral rights of the author have been asserted Database right Oxford University Press (maker) Reprinted 2005 All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, without the prior permission in writing of Oxford University Press, or as expressly permitted by law, or under terms agreed with the appropriate reprographics rights organization. Enquiries concerning reproduction outside the scope of the above should be sent to the Rights Department, Oxford University Press, at the address above You must not circulate this book in any other binding or cover And you must impose this same condition on any acquirer ISBN 0-19-925151-7 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS I thank Oxford University Press for their assistance in bringing this volume to publication. In particular, 1 am grateful to Rebecca Bryant, Rupert Cousens, Peter Momtchiloff, and to two anonymous referees for their encouragement, help, and advice. Special thanks to Laurien Berkeley- for her excellent copy- editing and for her supererogatory patience. I am grateful to Allyson Mount for her precise and conscientious reading of all the final drafts including my Introduction, for her corrections, her clarificatory questions, and the excellent index she prepared for the volume. And, of course, to Tamar, who—as usual—helped me at every step. 7. G. S. This page intentionally left blank CONTENTS List of Contributors ix Introduction 1 1. Context ex Machina 15 Kent Bach 2. Radical and Moderate Pragmatics: Docs Meaning Determine Truth Conditions: 45 Herman Cappelen and Ernie Lepore 3. Focus: A Case Study on the Semantics—Pragmatics Boundary 72 Michael Glanzberg 4. Semantics, Pragmatics, and the Role of Semantic Content 111 Jeffrey C. King and Jason Stanley 5. Pragmatism and Binding 165 Stephen Neale 6. Deixis and Anaphora 286 Francois Recanati 7. Two Conceptions of Semantics 317 Nathan Salmon 8. Presupposition and Relevance 329 Mandy Simons viii / Contents 9. Naming and Asserting 356 Scott Soames 10. In Defense of Non-Sentential Assertion 383 Robert J. Stainton Index 459 LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS Kent Bach, San Francisco State University Herman Cappelen , Vassar College Michael Glanzberg, University of California, Davis Jeffrey C. King, University of Southern California Ernie Lepore, Rutgers University Stephen Neale, Rutgers University Francois Recanati, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris Nathan Salmon, University of California, Santa Barbara Mandy Simons, Carnegie Mellon University Scott Soames, University of Southern California Robert ]. Stainton, University of Western Ontario Jason Stanley, Rutgers University Zoltan Gendler Szabo, Cornell University
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