Context-Dependence, Perspective and Relativity

• Other Authors: Recanati, Francois (Editor), Stojanovic, Isidora (Editor), Villanueva, Neftali (Editor)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: De Gruyter 2010
• Subjects: linguistics; Semantics & pragmatics; Communication studies; Interpersonal Communication; Discourse Analysis; Pragmatics
• Online Access: OAPEN Library: download the publication; OAPEN Library: description of the publication

This volume brings together original papers by linguists and philosophers on the role of context and perspective in language and thought. Several contributions are concerned with the contextualism/relativism debate, which has loomed large in recent philosophical discussions. In a substantial introdu...