Insensitive Semantics

<i>Insensitive Semantics</i> is an overview of and contribution to the debates about how to accommodate context sensitivity within a theory of human communication, investigating the effects of context on communicative interaction and, as a corollary, what a context of utterance is and what it is to be in one. <br /> <ul> <li style=”list-style: none”><br /> </li> <li>Provides detailed and wide-ranging overviews of the central positions and arguments surrounding contextualism</li> </ul> <br /> <p><br /> </p> <ul> <li style=”list-style: none”><br /> </li> <li>Addresses broad and varied aspects of the distinction between the semantic and non-semantic content of language</li> </ul> <br /> <p><br /> </p> <ul> <li style=”list-style: none”><br /> </li> <li>Defends a distinctive and explanatorily powerful combination of semantic minimalism and speech act pluralism</li> </ul> <br /> <p><br /> </p> <ul> <li style=”list-style: none”><br /> </li> <li>Confronts core problems which not only run to the heart of philosophy of language and linguistics, but which arise in epistemology, metaphysics, and moral philosophy as well</li> </ul>