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<p><p><b>minimal Semantics</b> Asks What A Theory Of Literal Linguistic Meaning Is <b>for</b>&#151;if You Were To Be Given A Working Theory Of Meaning For A Language Right Now, What Would You Be Able To Do With It? Emma Borg Sets Out To Defend A Formal Approach To Semantic Theorizing From A Relatively New Type Of Opponent&#151;advocates Of What She Calls Dual Pragmatics. According To Dual Pragmatists, Rich Pragmatic Processes Play Two Distinct Roles In Linguistic Comprehension&#58; As Well As Operating In A Post-semantic Capacity To Determine The Implicatures Of An Utterance, They Also Operate Prior To The Determination Of Truth-conditional Content For A Sentence. That Is To Say, They Have An Integral Role To Play Within What Is Usually Thought Of As The Semantic Realm.<p>borg Believes Dual Pragmatic Accounts Constitute The Strongest Contemporary Challenge To Standard Formal Approaches To Semantics Since They Challenge The Formal Theorist To Show Not Merely That There Is Some Role For Formal Processes On Route To Determination Of Semantic Content, But That Such Processes Are Sufficient For Determining Content. <b>minimal Semantics</b> Provides A Detailed Examination Of This School

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Author

Emma Borg

Publisher

Oxford University PressOxford

Published

2004

Language

EN

ISBN

9780199270255

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Linguistics, Language Learning, Literary Fiction