It is a near truism of philosophy of language that sentences are prior to words--that they are the only things that fundamentally have meaning. Robert's Stainton's study interrogates this idea, drawing on a wide body of evidence to argue that speakers can and do use mere words, not sentences, to communicate complex thoughts.
It is a near truism of philosophy of language that sentences are prior to words--that they are the only things that fundamentally have meaning. Robert's Stainton's study interrogates this idea, drawing on a wide body of evidence to argue that speakers can and do use mere words, not sentences, to communicate complex thoughts.
PART ONE: THE APPEARANCES AND SOME BACKGROUND 1: 1. Introduction: The appearances, and what they might mean 2: Further Background Issues PART TWO: THE GENUINENESS ISSUE 3: Not A Full-fledged Speech Act? 4: Extra-Grammatical Manoeuvres 5: Semantic Ellipsis 6: Syntactic Ellipsis 7: A Divide and Conquer Strategy 8: A Positive Representational-Pragmatic View PART THREE: IMPLICATIONS 9: Language--Thought Relations 10: Sentence Primacy 11: The Sentences, Assertion and the Semantics-Pragmatics Boundary
PART ONE: THE APPEARANCES AND SOME BACKGROUND 1: 1. Introduction: The appearances, and what they might mean 2: Further Background Issues PART TWO: THE GENUINENESS ISSUE 3: Not A Full-fledged Speech Act? 4: Extra-Grammatical Manoeuvres 5: Semantic Ellipsis 6: Syntactic Ellipsis 7: A Divide and Conquer Strategy 8: A Positive Representational-Pragmatic View PART THREE: IMPLICATIONS 9: Language--Thought Relations 10: Sentence Primacy 11: The Sentences, Assertion and the Semantics-Pragmatics Boundary
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