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020 _a9780199573677 (hardcover)
020 _a9780199573684 (paperback)
040 _aYDXCP
_cKABLIB
_dKABLIB
082 0 0 _a401.43
_223
_bLAS
100 1 _aLasersohn, Peter,
_eAuthor.
_95682
245 1 0 _aSubjectivity and Perspective in Truth-Theoretic Semantics /
_cPeter Lasersohn.
250 _aFirst edition.
264 1 _aOxford, United Kingdom :
_bOxford University Press,
_cc2017.
300 _axviii, 274 pages :
_billustrations ;
_c26 cm.
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent
337 _aunmediated
_bn
_2rdamedia
338 _avolume
_bnc
_2rdacarrier
490 1 _aOxford studies in semantics and pragmatics ;
_v8
500 _aIncludes index.
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 259-266).
505 0 0 _aMachine generated contents note:
_g1.
_tSubjectivity, disagreement, and content --
_g1.1.
_tgoal: a truth-theoretic semantics for sentences expressing subjective judgment --
_g1.2.
_tMatters of fact and matters of opinion --
_g1.3.
_tSubjectivity as relative truth --
_g1.4.
_tContext, content, and denotation --
_g1.5.
_tHomomorphic interpretation and differentiation of content --
_g2.
_tDismissing the easy alternatives --
_g2.1.
_tIndexical analyses --
_g2.2.
_tQuantificational analyses --
_g2.3.
_tAbsolutism and ignorance --
_g2.4.
_tExpressivism --
_g2.5.
_tMetalinguistic and metacontextual conflict --
_g3.
_tSetting the syntactic and semantic stage --
_g3.1.
_tSyntactic assumptions --
_g3.2.
_tPronouns, names, and anaphora --
_g3.3.
_tCommon nouns, quantification, and binding --
_g3.4.
_tNegation and contradiction --
_g3.5.
_tIntensionality --
_g4.
_tNotes on the grammar of time and space --
_g4.1.
_tTense --
_g4.2.
_tSpatial deixis --
_g5.
_tBasic relativist semantics --
_g5.1.
_tjudge parameter --
_g5.2.
_tRevising the grammar --
_g5.3.
_tExtension to taste expressions --
_g5.4.
_tTruth in a relativist semantics --
_g5.5.
_tDerelativization in the object language --
_g6.
_t"Hidden" and "disguised" elements --
_g6.1.
_tPhonological reduction --
_g6.2.
_tNull elements in syntax --
_g6.3.
_tUnarticulated constituents --
_g6.4.
_tConstructional indexicality --
_g6.5.
_tSublexical and compound indexicality --
_g6.6.
_tIndexical and quantificational interpretations of hidden elements --
_g6.7.
_tConclusion --
_g7.
_tPragmatics of truth assessment --
_g7.1.
_tContexts of use and parameter values --
_g7.2.
_tContexts of assessment and parameter values --
_g7.3.
_tAdopting a stance --
_g7.4.
_tTruth assessment and the adicity of true --
_g7.5.
_tExocentricity and indexicality --
_g7.6.
_tAcentric stances --
_g8.
_tAttitude predicates in relativist semantics --
_g8.1.
_tStance and belief --
_g8.2.
_tFactives, relativism, and speaker commitment --
_g8.3.
_tInfinitival clauses and time reference --
_g8.4.
_tCentered attitudes and control of infinitival subjects --
_g8.5.
_tEffective centering without PRO --
_g8.6.
_tDe se belief and autocentric truth assessment --
_g8.7.
_tAgainst non-indexical contextualism --
_g9.
_tAssertion and other speech acts --
_g9.1.
_tAssertion, norms, and portrayal as true --
_g9.2.
_tAssertion, conversation, and context change --
_g9.3.
_tWhy assert? --
_g9.4.
_tQuestions --
_g10.
_tBetween fact and opinion --
_g10.1.
_tAesthetic judgment and refinement of taste --
_g10.2.
_tContingent futures --
_g10.3.
_tEpistemic modality --
_g10.4.
_tNon-taste candidates for relativism: scalar cut-offs, sufficiency, and derogation --
_g10.5.
_tConclusion --
_g11.
_tReliability, imagination, and the functional motivation for relativism --
_g11.1.
_tevolutionary fable --
_g11.2.
_tSpace and logical space --
_g11.3.
_tReliability and traversable dimensions --
_g11.4.
_tReliability-based content --
_g11.5.
_tFrom reliability to truth.
520 _a"This book explores linguistic and philosophical issues presented by sentences expressing personal taste, such as Roller coasters are fun, or Licorice is tasty. Standard semantic theories explain the meanings of sentences by specifying the conditions under which they are true; here, Peter Lasersohn asks how we can account for sentences that are concerned with matters of opinion rather than matters of fact. He argues that a truth-theoretic semantic theory is appropriate even for sentences like these, but that for such sentences, truth and falsity must be assigned relative to perspectives, rather than absolutely. The book provides a detailed and explicit formal grammar, working out the implications of this conception of truth both for simple sentences and for reports of mental attitude. The semantic analysis is paired with a pragmatic theory explaining what it means to assert a sentence which is true or false only relativistically, and with a speculative account of the functional motivation for a relativized notion of truth."--
_cProvided by publisher.
650 0 _aSubjectivity (Linguistics)
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650 0 _aPerspective (Linguistics)
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650 0 _aContext (Linguistics)
_95685
650 0 _aSemantics.
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650 7 _aContext (Linguistics)
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_0(OCoLC)fst00876661
_95685
650 7 _aPerspective (Linguistics)
_2fast
_0(OCoLC)fst01058885
_95684
650 7 _aSemantics.
_2fast
_0(OCoLC)fst01112079
_95519
650 7 _aSubjectivity (Linguistics)
_2fast
_0(OCoLC)fst01762961
_95683
830 0 _aOxford studies in semantics and pragmatics ;
_v8.
_95686
942 _2ddc
_cBOOK