Context (Context & Content)
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| Rating | : | 4.68 (717 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 019877687X |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 256 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-04-11 |
| Language | : | English |
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Five Stars Amazon Customer Fascinating development of an important topic
Robert Stalnaker explores the notion of the context in which speech takes place, its role in the interpretation of what is said, and in the explanation of the dynamics of discourse. Stalnaker provides a way of representing self-locating information that helps to explain how it can be shared and communicated, and how it evolves over time. He distinguishes different notions of context, but the main focus is on the notion of context as common ground, where the common ground is an evolving body of background information that is presumed to be shared by the participants in a conversation. He discusses the sem
He is the author of Inquiry (MIT Press, 1984), Our Knowledge of the Internal World (OUP, 2007), and Mere possibilities (Princeton University Press, 2010), as well as two collections of papers, Context and Content (OUP, 1999) and Ways a World Might Be (OUP, 2003). G. Hempel. He got his PhD in philosophy at Princeton University, working with Stuart Hampshire and C. He taught at Yale Un
The program has broadened to engulf tricky technical issues that have recently assumed centre stage in philosophy of language (as well as crossing over into linguistics)." -- Mind"In sum, this is an excellent book that anyone with an interest in how context affects interpretation should read with great care. Graduate students and above." --Choice"This new book, based on a lecture series given in Paris and Mexico City, is a monument to a research program as lively today as it was at its inception more than forty years ago--a fact that is itself testament to the strength and relevance of the early papers from which it sprang. Even if one isn't interested in epistemic modals or conditionals per se, the characterization of their interpretation as essentially a function of the comm