Abstract
The standard view of semantics-that every disambiguated sentence has a determinate semantic content, relative to an assignment of contents to its indexical expressions, and not necessarily identical to what may be conveyed (pragmatically) by its utterance-is defended against standard objections and is also argued for on independent grounds, which suggest that resistance to the view comes from a failure to distinguish between "strict semantics" and "loose semantics".
| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 349-359 |
| Number of pages | 11 |
| Journal | Journal of Pragmatics |
| Volume | 34 |
| Issue number | 4 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - 2002 |
Keywords
- Context
- Literal Nonliteral
- Meaning
- Pragmatics
- Semantics
- What is said
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Language and Linguistics
- Linguistics and Language
- Artificial Intelligence