Subjectivity and Perspective in Truth-Theoretic Semantics /
"This book explores linguistic and philosophical issues presented by sentences expressing personal taste, such as Roller coasters are fun, or Licorice is tasty. Standard semantic theories explain the meanings of sentences by specifying the conditions under which they are true; here, Peter Laser...
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Oxford, United Kingdom :
Oxford University Press,
c2017.
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| Edition: | First edition. |
| Series: | Oxford studies in semantics and pragmatics ;
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Table of Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: 1. Subjectivity, disagreement, and content
- 1.1. goal: a truth-theoretic semantics for sentences expressing subjective judgment
- 1.2. Matters of fact and matters of opinion
- 1.3. Subjectivity as relative truth
- 1.4. Context, content, and denotation
- 1.5. Homomorphic interpretation and differentiation of content
- 2. Dismissing the easy alternatives
- 2.1. Indexical analyses
- 2.2. Quantificational analyses
- 2.3. Absolutism and ignorance
- 2.4. Expressivism
- 2.5. Metalinguistic and metacontextual conflict
- 3. Setting the syntactic and semantic stage
- 3.1. Syntactic assumptions
- 3.2. Pronouns, names, and anaphora
- 3.3. Common nouns, quantification, and binding
- 3.4. Negation and contradiction
- 3.5. Intensionality
- 4. Notes on the grammar of time and space
- 4.1. Tense
- 4.2. Spatial deixis
- 5. Basic relativist semantics
- 5.1. judge parameter
- 5.2. Revising the grammar
- 5.3. Extension to taste expressions
- 5.4. Truth in a relativist semantics
- 5.5. Derelativization in the object language
- 6. "Hidden" and "disguised" elements
- 6.1. Phonological reduction
- 6.2. Null elements in syntax
- 6.3. Unarticulated constituents
- 6.4. Constructional indexicality
- 6.5. Sublexical and compound indexicality
- 6.6. Indexical and quantificational interpretations of hidden elements
- 6.7. Conclusion
- 7. Pragmatics of truth assessment
- 7.1. Contexts of use and parameter values
- 7.2. Contexts of assessment and parameter values
- 7.3. Adopting a stance
- 7.4. Truth assessment and the adicity of true
- 7.5. Exocentricity and indexicality
- 7.6. Acentric stances
- 8. Attitude predicates in relativist semantics
- 8.1. Stance and belief
- 8.2. Factives, relativism, and speaker commitment
- 8.3. Infinitival clauses and time reference
- 8.4. Centered attitudes and control of infinitival subjects
- 8.5. Effective centering without PRO
- 8.6. De se belief and autocentric truth assessment
- 8.7. Against non-indexical contextualism
- 9. Assertion and other speech acts
- 9.1. Assertion, norms, and portrayal as true
- 9.2. Assertion, conversation, and context change
- 9.3. Why assert?
- 9.4. Questions
- 10. Between fact and opinion
- 10.1. Aesthetic judgment and refinement of taste
- 10.2. Contingent futures
- 10.3. Epistemic modality
- 10.4. Non-taste candidates for relativism: scalar cut-offs, sufficiency, and derogation
- 10.5. Conclusion
- 11. Reliability, imagination, and the functional motivation for relativism
- 11.1. evolutionary fable
- 11.2. Space and logical space
- 11.3. Reliability and traversable dimensions
- 11.4. Reliability-based content
- 11.5. From reliability to truth.