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Semantics and Pragmatics Reading group

S&P   |   2018 / 2019
Convenor: Andre Bazzoni

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We will discuss different issues in Semantics and Pragmatics, including: meaning and commitment; the nature and structure of context, and non at issue meaning.

 

The group will meet every other Wednesday after the Logos Colloquium, 17h15–19h15, Ramon Llull Room.

 

The list of planned readings includes:

 

Mazzarella, Diana, Robert Reinecke, Ira Noveck, Hugo Mercier (2018), Saying, presupposing and implicating: How pragmatics modulates commitment. Journal of Pragmatics, Volume 133, August 2018, Pages 15-27

 

García-Carpintero, M. (2018). On the Nature of Presupposition: A Normative Speech Act Account. Forthcoming in Erkenntnis

 

Stojnić, U., Stone, M., and Lepore, E. (2017). Discourse and logical form: pronouns, attention, and coherence. Linguistics and Philosophy.

 

Geurts, Bart , 2018, Convention and common ground, Mind and Language 33 (2):115-129

 

Bach, Kent, 2012, Context Dependence. In Manuel García-Carpintero & Max Kölbel (eds.), The Continuum Companion to the Philosophy of Language. Continuum International.

 

Glanzberg, Michael, Not All Contextual Parameters Are Alike, ms.

 

Davies, Alex, forthcoming, Communicating by doing something else. In Tamara Dobler, John Collins & Alun Davies (eds.), Themes from Charles Travis: On Language, Thought, and Perception. Oxford University Press.

 

Hansen, Nat, 2011,  Color Adjectives and Radical Contextualism, Linguistics and Philosophy 34 (3):201-221 (2011)

 

Rabern, B., 2012, Against the identification of assertoric content with compositional value. Synthese, 189(1):75–96.

 

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