By Robert Stainton
ISBN-10: 0199250383
ISBN-13: 9780199250387
It's a close to truism of philosophy of language that sentences are sooner than phrases. Sentences, it really is acknowledged, are what we think, assert, and argue for; makes use of of them represent our proof in semantics; in basic terms they stand in inferential family members, and are precise or fake. Sentences are, certainly, the one issues that essentially have which means. Does this close to truism quite carry of human languages? Robert Stainton, drawing on a large physique of proof, argues forcefully that audio system can and do use mere phrases, no longer sentences, to speak whole recommendations. He then considers the results of this empirical consequence for language-thought kinfolk, a number of doctrines of sentence primacy, and the semantics-pragmatics boundary. The booklet is necessary either for its philosophical and empirical claims, and for the method hired. Stainton illustrates how the tools and precise result of many of the cognitive sciences can endure on imperative concerns in philosophy of language. whilst, he applies philosophical differences with subtlety and care, to teach that arguments which possible aid the primacy of sentences don't quite accomplish that. the result's a paradigm instance of the recent Philosophy of Language: a wealthy melding of empirical paintings with conventional philosophy of language.
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E. unembedded in any larger structure) to perform a speech act. These might naturally be called sentences as well (though, truth be told, I find calling members of this last category ‘sentences’ ultimately unhelpful). Thus, we have (at least) three senses of ‘sentence’. (10) Three senses of ‘sentence’ (a) Sentencesyntactic : an expression with a certain kind of structure/form (b) Sentencesemantic : an expression with a certain kind of content/meaning (c) Sentencepragmatic : an expression with a certain kind of use 32 Appearances and Background One might think that these three are merely distinctions in intension.
Where there is a risk of confusion, I will use ‘expression type/phrase type/sentence type’ for the former, and ‘Montagovian semantic type’ for the latter. Given this terminology, the point is that some sentence types, though of Montagovian semantic type
But class (10c) includes both of these. Moreover, I will maintain that, when someone uses something from class (10a) to perform a speech act, they are not using sentencessemantic either: the things spoken are genuine phrases, with the meaning of phrases. ) So (10b) and (10c) differ in extension as well— since only the latter contains genuine/ordinary words and phrases. Let me illustrate this three-way contrast with two examples. Benigno says to the taxi driver ‘To the jail’. Anita says to Meera ‘Moving pretty fast’.
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