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DTSTART:20170525T110000Z
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URL:https://www.ub.edu/grc_logos/activities/content-in-a-dynamic-context/
SUMMARY:Content in a Dynamic Context
DESCRIPTION:Una Stojnić It is common wisdom that\, due to the pervasivenes
 s of context-sensitivity in natural languages\, sentences of natural langu
 ages express content only relative to the context of utterance. This commo
 n wisdom is captured by the slogan: &quot\;The context of an utterance (gi
 ven the standing linguistic meaning of the sentence uttered) determines it
 s content.&quot\; The content in this framework is understood as the propo
 sition expressed in the context of utterance by the sentence uttered. On t
 he other hand\, authors working in the dynamic semantics tradition have lo
 ng emphasized the aspect of an utterance&#39\;s interpretation reflected i
 n the way the utterance changes the context in which it has been uttered. 
 They have advocated that we should understand an utterance&#39\;s meaning 
 as its &quot\;context change potential&quot\;\, the characterization of th
 e way in which the utterance affects the context in which it has been utte
 red. These two approaches are typically presented as competing &mdash\; th
 us\, the dynamic semantics approach has been taken as a radical reconceptu
 alization of how we should think of meaning. I argue\, by contrast that th
 e two approaches to meaning are not in tension. In this paper\, I show how
  we can simultaneously model an utterance&#39\;s effect on context and als
 o\, capture the ordinary propositional content it expresses in a context. 
 Moreover\, I argue not only that the two approaches are not in tension\, b
 ut that an adequate account of utterance meaning has to capture both of th
 ese aspects of meaning\, and their interaction. A complete adequate accoun
 t of an utterance&#39\;s meaning has to model the two-way interaction betw
 een the context and an utterance &mdash\; on the one hand\, an utterance c
 hanges the context\, on the other\, it depends on the context to determine
  the proposition expressed by the sentence uttered. Both aspects of interp
 retation are crucial\, and they are interrelated&mdash\; as I show\, unles
 s we captured the change in the context prompted by an utterance we wouldn
 &#39\;t be able to correctly predict the proposition expressed by the sent
 ence uttered\, since the latter depends on this dynamically changing conte
 xt.
CATEGORIES:Extra talks
LOCATION:Room 4047 (former logic department seminar room)
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