Pub Date : 2020-03-26DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780198851134.003.0007
John Collins
This chapter discusses the programmatic nature of linguistic pragmatism with reference to three questions. Firstly, I address in historical terms the nature of linguistic variables by considering some remarks from Chomsky. Secondly, I address the apparent ontological commitment of semantics. Thirdly, I offer a final plea for placing semantics, as usually conceived, outside of language proper.
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Pub Date : 2020-03-26DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780198851134.003.0001
John Collins
This chapter articulates and defends linguistic pragmatism as a linguistic hypothesis that language alone underdetermines truth conditions (or what is said), and doesn’t even provide a variable licence for the truth conditions of an utterance in a context. Linguistic meaning is characterized, therefore, in terms of constraints upon what can be literally said with a linguistic structure, without the presumption that the linguistic properties of an utterance in a context will determine a content. The hypothesis is explained in terms of the resources language makes available to content, differentiated from related positions, and defended against numerous objections, especially those that argue for an essential role for minimal propositions in accounting for aspects of what is said.
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