Semantics, Pragmatics and Meaning Revisited The Case of Conditionals /

• Main Author: Sztencel, Magdalena (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: Perspectives in Pragmatics, Philosophy & Psychology, 17
• Subjects: Pragmatics.; Language and languages-Philosophy.; Semantics.; Psycholinguistics.; Philosophy of Language.

This book systematically investigates what follows about meaning in language if current views on the limited, or even redundant, role of linguistic semantics are taken to their radical conclusion. Focusing on conditionals, the book defends a wholly pragmatic, wholly inferential account of meaning -...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• PART I: Semantics, Pragmatics and Meaning
• Chapter 1. Conceptual Correlates of Words
• Chapter 2. The Locus of Semantics and the Decoding-inferring Distinction
• Chapter 3. Revisiting Holism
• PART II: Conditionals
• Chapter 4. The Meaning of if
• Chapter 5. Holistic and Individualistic Constraints on Interpretation
• Conclusion.