Semantic Under-Determinacy and Communication

"This book investigates the phenomenon of semantic under-determinacy by exploring how under-determinacy can be explained, and how communication is possible despite it. Belleri argues that the comprehension of utterances of semantically under-determined sentences is made possible by our mastery of certain conceptual constraints, as well as the information we gain from the context which does not necessarily concern the intentions and beliefs of the speaker. Combining a fresh, previously unexplored view of the subject with a detailed overview of the past and ongoing philosophical discussion on the matter, the book asserts that semantic under-determinacy comes from nothing but a lack of words or under-articulation"--

List of contents

Introduction PART I 1. Arguing for Semantic Under-determinacy 2. The Peculiarity of Semantic Under-determinacy PART II 3. Semantic Under-determinacy and the Debate on Context Sensitivity 4. Semantic Under-determinacy and Conceptual Constraints 5. Semantic Under-determinacy, Comprehension and Meta-representation Conclusion

About the author

Delia Belleri is a Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Institute of Philosophical Investigations at the National Autonomous University of Mexico, Mexico City. Previously, she has been a research fellow at the COGITO Research Centre of Philosophy, University of Bologna, Italy. Her main research interests include semantics, pragmatics and their interface.

Product details

• Authors: D Belleri, D. Belleri, Delia Belleri
• Publisher: Palgrave UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 25.11.2014
• EAN: 9781137398437
• ISBN: 978-1-137-39843-7
• No. of pages: 203
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Other languages / Other literatures; B, Philosophy of Language, Pragmatics, Semiotics, Language and languages—Philosophy, Palgrave Language & Linguistics Collection, Semantics, discourse analysis, stylistics, Semantics