Since for recanati the job of semantics is to account for the intuitive truthconditions of utterances p. Alice crary has recently developed a radical reading of j. There are more than 1 million books that have been enjoyed by people from all over the world. The literal and implied meanings of an utterance are derived from first principles assuming little more than the partial rationality of interacting agents. Always update books hourly, if not looking, search in the book search column. Malapropisms and davidsons theories of literal meaning. Francois recanati provides an original defense of contextualism in contribution to the current debate about the best definition of semantics and pragmatics.
I distinguish these from cases of genuine metaphor where the literal meaning is saliently available. Literal meaning by francois recanati cambridge university press. Many of his works focus on the philosophy of language and mind. Literal meaning by francois recanati, 2004 online research. Semantics of natural language gilbert harman and mark johnston mondays 1. Is what is said determined by linguistic conventions, or is it an aspect of speakers meaning.
Dec 18, 2014 in truthconditional pragmatics, a sequel to his 2004 book literal meaning, francois recanati defends what he calls contextualism or truthconditional pragmatics henceforth tcp, the view that we must allow for free pragmatic intrusion in the semantic composition process if we are to account for the intuitive truth conditions of utterances. Francois recanati is the author of literal meaning 3. Get ebooks speaker s meaning on pdf, epub, tuebl, mobi and audiobook for free. Literal meaning integrates his extensive earlier work into a systematic challenge to the very idea of literal meaning, at least as traditionally conceived, and the result is a vigorous manifesto for semantic contextualism. The central contention of crarys reading is that austin gives convincing reasons to reject the idea that sentences have contextinvariant literal meaning.
Francois recanati born 1952 is a french analytic philosopher and research fellow at the. Review francois recanati, literal meaning, cambridge. Cases in which the alleged non literal meaning can be accessed directly without processing the literal. By hal id ijn, literal meaning and francois recanati abstract hal is a multidisciplinary open access archive for the deposit and dissemination of scientific research documents, whether they are published or not. Osterantzean, pdf artxiboa zuzenean deskargatu dezakezu zure ordenagailura, eta bertan pdf irakurle bat erabiliz ireki dezakezu. The distinction between the literal meaning of a sentence. Truthconditional pragmatics paperback francois recanati. Literal meaning 1 most philosophers and linguists accept a certain conception of the notion of the literal meaning of words and sentences and the relation between literal meaning and other semantic notions such as ambiguity, metaphor, and truth. Recanati is particularly impressed by two pervasive facts about everyday communication. Lexical pragmatics and the weakness of belief daniel rothschild. Communication and content presents a comprehensive and foundational account of meaning based on new versions of situation theory and game theory. This is so, recanati allows, despite the fact that we can characterize a notion of literal content such that literal content is, by definition, independent of pragmatic. A view of novel metaphor in the light of recanatis proposals.
This is a debate that has been going on in the philosophy of language for the last fifteen years, in particular since the publication of francois recanatis influential book literal meaning. Hautatu duzun pdf fitxategia hemen kargatu beharko litzateke, zure web arakatzaileak pdf formatua duten testuak irakurtzeko plugina instalatuta badu adibidez, adobe acrobat reader irakurlearen bertsio berri bat. Francois recanati, literal meaning san francisco state university. Truthconditional pragmatics, by francois recanati mind. In his most recent work to our knowledge literal meaning, francois recanati wrote. Essays on francois recanatis philosophy of language. To what extent is semantic composition a creative process. Franyois recanati provides an original defense of contextualism in contribution to the current debate about the best definition of semantics and pragmatics. Francois recanati, literal meaning, reino unido, cambridge. Alleged priority of the literal connecting repositories. Recanati also claimed that lacan did not mean anything with his central concepts, since he was unable to. Recanati, relevance theorists, various others, have argued such modu lations many focus on. I propose that an account of metaphor understanding which covers the full range of cases has to allow for two routes or modes of processing. Recanati provides an original and insightful defence of contextualism, and offers an informed survey of the spectrum of positions held by linguists and philosophers working at the semanticspragmatics interface.
Francois recanatis radical pragmatic theory of quotation dialnet. This is a provocative contribution to the current debate about the best delimitation of semantics and pragmatics. A read is counted each time someone views a publication summary such as the title, abstract, and list of authors, clicks on a figure, or views or downloads the fulltext. Francois recanati 2001 midwest studies in philosophy 25 1. Cambridge core semantics and pragmatics literal meaning by francois recanati. Through half a dozen case studies, he shows that what an utterance says cannot be neatly separated from what the speaker means. Francois recanati provides an original defense of contextualism in contr. In literal meaning, francois recanati argues for contextualism on utterance meaning and content, against literalism, indexicalism and syncretic views.
Review kent bach 2007 philosophy and phenomenological research 75 2. In this paper, i discuss chapter 7 of francois recanatis truthconditional. In literal meaning 2004, francois recanati clearly and helpfully articulates reasons that he has been propounding in the past two decades for adopting one of the two main contrasting positions in this debate, which he labels contextualism and literalism the book helpfully distinguishes importantly different versions of the two. Isbn 0 521 79246 0 hardback isbn 0 521 53736 3 paperback 1. In this paper i want to challenge one aspect of this received opinion.
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