Linguistic Pragmatism and Weather Reporting

John Collins defends the doctrine of linguistic pragmatism--arguing that linguistic meaning alone fails to fix truth conditions and detailing the relative sparseness of what language alone can provide to semantic interpretation--through his novel analysis of the syntax, semantics, and pragmatics of weather reporting.

List of contents

• 1: Linguistic Pragmatism


• 2: Squaring Pragmatism with Linguistic Meaning


• 3: When the Weatherman Says 'It's Raining'


• 4: The Linguistic Properties of Weather Reports


• 5: Quantificational Weather Reports


• 6: Variadic Functions and the Significance of Complement Deletion

About the author

John Collins is Professor of Philosophy at the University of East Anglia. He mainly researches in the areas of philosophy of language and linguistic theory, but has written more broadly on the concept of truth and issues in philosophy of science and philosophy of mind. He is the author of many articles and two books, Chomsky: A Guide for the Perplexed (Bloomsbury 2008) and The Unity of Linguistic Meaning (Oxford 2011).

Summary

John Collins defends the doctrine of linguistic pragmatism--arguing that linguistic meaning alone fails to fix truth conditions and detailing the relative sparseness of what language alone can provide to semantic interpretation--through his novel analysis of the syntax, semantics, and pragmatics of weather reporting.

Product details

• Authors: John Collins, John (Professor of Philosophy Collins, Collins John
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 26.03.2020
• EAN: 9780198851134
• ISBN: 978-0-19-885113-4
• No. of pages: 228
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Miscellaneous; Philosophy of Language, PHILOSOPHY / Language, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Pragmatics, Semantics, discourse analysis, stylistics, Semantics & pragmatics