Overlooking Conventions

Author : Michael Devitt
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2021-10-08
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783030706531

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This book criticizes the methodology of the recent semantics-pragmatics debate in the theory of language and proposes an alternative. It applies this methodology to argue for a traditional view against a group of “contextualists” and “pragmatists”, including Sperber and Wilson, Bach, Carston, Recanati, Neale, and many others. The author disagrees with these theorists who hold that the meaning of the sentence in an utterance never, or hardly ever, yields its literal truth-conditional content, even after disambiguation and reference fixing; it needs to be pragmatically supplemented in context. The standard methodology of this debate is to consult intuitions. The book argues that theories should be tested against linguistic usage. Theoretical distinctions, however intuitive, need to be scientifically motivated. Also we should not be guided by Grice’s “Modified Occam’s Razor”, Ruhl’s “Monosemantic Bias”, or other such strategies for “meaning denialism”. From this novel perspective, the striking examples of context relativity that motivate contextualists and pragmatists typically exemplify semantic rather than pragmatic properties. In particular, polysemous phenomena should typically be treated as semantic ambiguity. The author argues that conventions have been overlooked, that there’s no extensive “semantic underdetermination” and that the new theoretical framework of “truth-conditional pragmatics” is a mistake.

Author : Michael Devitt
Publisher : Springer
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2021-07-29
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 3030706524

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This book criticizes the methodology of the recent semantics-pragmatics debate in the theory of language and proposes an alternative. It applies this methodology to argue for a traditional view against a group of “contextualists” and “pragmatists”, including Sperber and Wilson, Bach, Carston, Recanati, Neale, and many others. The author disagrees with these theorists who hold that the meaning of the sentence in an utterance never, or hardly ever, yields its literal truth-conditional content, even after disambiguation and reference fixing; it needs to be pragmatically supplemented in context. The standard methodology of this debate is to consult intuitions. The book argues that theories should be tested against linguistic usage. Theoretical distinctions, however intuitive, need to be scientifically motivated. Also we should not be guided by Grice’s “Modified Occam’s Razor”, Ruhl’s “Monosemantic Bias”, or other such strategies for “meaning denialism”. From this novel perspective, the striking examples of context relativity that motivate contextualists and pragmatists typically exemplify semantic rather than pragmatic properties. In particular, polysemous phenomena should typically be treated as semantic ambiguity. The author argues that conventions have been overlooked, that there’s no extensive “semantic underdetermination” and that the new theoretical framework of “truth-conditional pragmatics” is a mistake.

Author : Abrol Fairweather,Carlos Montemayor
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2023-05-23
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780192660152

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Linguistic Luck by Abrol Fairweather,Carlos Montemayor Pdf

Despite the considerable attention the topic of luck has received in ethics and epistemology, very little has been published in the philosophical literature overtly on linguistic luck. The essays collected here provide the first sustained examination of the diverse forms of linguistic luck, the mechanisms available to reduce the impact of linguistic luck and how to cope with residual luck not eliminated by the causal, inferential, and intentional mechanisms which aim at its eradication. Of primary interest is not some, hitherto unnoticed widespread prevalence of luck in the determinants of meaning and communication, but rather the impressive extent to which luck is reduced or eliminated therein. Whether through casual, inferential or intentional means, the determinants of meaning and communication are impressively independent of luck and chance. In fact, it is difficult to imagine a world with human language where efforts to communicate succeed no better than chance. Linguistic communication is only possible because robust luck reducing variables are at work. The essays collected seek to understand the diversity, scope and mode of operation of luck reducing mechanisms in language. While it is not possible here to cover the full range of linguistic phenomena affected by luck, a wide range of issues in linguistics and philosophy of language are investigated, including, syntax processing, demonstrative reference, conversational implicature, testimony, lexical innovation, joint attention, communicative value, conventionalism vs. anti-conventionalism, metasemantic safety, and semantic skepticism, to name a few.

Author : Alessandro Capone,Franco Lo Piparo,Marco Carapezza
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 664 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2013-11-26
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783319010113

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Perspectives on Pragmatics and Philosophy by Alessandro Capone,Franco Lo Piparo,Marco Carapezza Pdf

This book is about the pragmatics of language and it illustrates how pragmatics transcends the boundaries of linguistics. This volume covers Gricean pragmatics as well as topics including: conversation and collective belief, the norm of assertion, speech acts, what a context is, the distinction between semantics and pragmatics and implicature and explicature, pragmatics and epistemology, the pragmatics of belief, quotation, negation, implicature and argumentation theory, Habermas’ Universal Pragmatics, Dascal’s theory of the dialectical self, theories and theoretical discussions on the nature of pragmatics from a philosophical point of view. Conversational implicatures are generally meaning augmentations on top of explicatures, whilst explicatures figure prominently in what is said. Discussions in this work reveal their characteristics and tensions within current theories relating to explicatures and implicatures. Authors show that explicatures and implicatures are calculable and not (directly) tied to conventional meaning. Pragmatics has a role to play in dealing with philosophical problems and this volume presents research that defines boundaries and gives a stable picture of pragmatics and philosophy. World renowned academic experts in philosophy and pragmalinguistics ask important theoretical questions and interact in a way that can be easily grasped by those from disciplines other than philosophy, such as anthropology, literary theory and law. A second volume in this series is also available, which covers the perspective of linguists who have been influenced by philosophy.

Author : Eric S. Heberlig,Suzanne M. Leland,David Swindell
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2017-09-19
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781438466408

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American Cities and the Politics of Party Conventions by Eric S. Heberlig,Suzanne M. Leland,David Swindell Pdf

Uncovers the politics involved when a city recruits and implements a presidential convention. Political party conventions have lost much of their original political nature, serving now primarily as elaborate infomercials while ratifying the decisions made by voters in state primaries and caucuses. While this activity hasn’t changed significantly since the 1970s, conventions themselves have changed significantly in terms of how they are recruited, implemented, and paid for. American Cities and the Politics of Party Conventions analyzes how and why cities advance through the site selection process. Just as parties use conventions to communicate their policies, unity, and competence to the electorate, cities use the convention selection process to communicate their merits to political parties, businesses and residents. While hosting such a “mega event” provides some direct economic stimulus for host cities, the major benefit of the convention is the opportunity it provides for branding and signaling status. Combining a case studies approach as well as interviews with party and local officials, Eric S. Heberlig, Suzanne M. Leland, and David Swindell bring party convention scholarship up to date while highlighting the costs and benefits of hosting such events for tourism bureaus, city administrators, elected officials, and the citizens they represent. Eric S. Heberlig is Professor of Political Science and Public Administration at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte and coauthor (with Bruce A. Larson) of Congressional Parties, Institutional Ambition, and the Financing of Majority Control. Suzanne M. Leland is Professor of Political Science and Public Administration at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte and coeditor (with Kurt Thurmaier) of City-County Consolidation: Promises Made, Promises Kept? David Swindell is the Director of the Center for Urban Innovation and Associate Professor in the School of Public Affairs at Arizona State University.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1122 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1982-07
Category : Congresses and conventions
ISBN : CORNELL:31924054992981

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Meetings and Conventions by Anonim Pdf

Author : Kurt Finsterbusch
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2019-04-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780429714054

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Methods For Social Analysis In Developing Countries by Kurt Finsterbusch Pdf

This book fills the gap between social science methodology books and the realities of conducting social research under Third World conditions. It focuses on social impact assessment methods and cost effective social analyses for development projects and programs in US and Third World countries.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Rotary International
Page : 818 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2024-07-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Proceedings: Seventeenth Annual Convention of Rotary International by Anonim Pdf

Author : John Willy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 648 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1927
Category : Bars (Drinking establishments)
ISBN : UOM:39015023073664

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The Hotel Monthly by John Willy Pdf

Author : National Association of State Universities and Land-Grant Colleges
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 680 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1900
Category : Agricultural education
ISBN : UOM:39015073307194

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Proceedings of the Annual Convention by National Association of State Universities and Land-Grant Colleges Pdf

Author : Association of American Agricultural Colleges and Experiment Stations. Annual Convention
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 998 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1895
Category : Agricultural education
ISBN : UCAL:B4022621

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Proceedings of the ... Annual Convention of the Association of American Agricultural Colleges and Experiment Stations by Association of American Agricultural Colleges and Experiment Stations. Annual Convention Pdf

Volume for 29th, 1915 includes the 4th: Land Grant College Engineering Association. Proceedings of the ... annual convention of the Land Grant College Engineering Association ... ; in 1915 the Land Grant College Engineering Association united with the Association of American Agricultural Colleges and Experiment Stations.

Author : Association of American Agricultural Colleges and Experiment Stations
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 866 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1898
Category : Agricultural education
ISBN : HARVARD:HX6CJT

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Proceedings of the ... Annual Convention of the Association of American Agricultural Colleges and Experiment Stations by Association of American Agricultural Colleges and Experiment Stations Pdf

Author : Tony Rogers
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 422 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2010-05-14
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781136415715

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Conferences and Conventions by Tony Rogers Pdf

Providing a comprehensive, in-depth analysis of the international conference industry, Conferences and Conventions: a global industry second edition examines the industry's origins, structure, economics, career opportunities, and future development. It also explains its links with the wider tourism industry. Now in its second edition, it is packed with a wealth of new international case studies covering the city of Melbourne, Queen Elizabeth II conference centre, London, Abu Dhabi, MCI Group, the Scottish Exhibition and Conference Centre, Glasgow and team San Jose, California. It also has new sections on: * Market segmentation and web marketing * Conference and event budgeting * Technology and communications, from video conferencing to web casting and pod casting * Corporate social responsibility and sustainable and green events. Conferences and Conventions: a global industry is illustrated with case studies and examples from around the world, including Great Britain, Canada, Australasia, Dubai, Greece, Thailand, South Africa, USA, Austria and many other destinations. It also provides challenging and reflective questions at the end of each chapter so that readers can test their knowledge and think about the issues raised, accompanied by practical assignments. Tony Rogers is Executive Director of the British Association of Conference Destinations and Association of British Professional Conference Organisers, UK

Author : Matthew Evangelista,Nina Tannenwald
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780199379781

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Do the Geneva Conventions Matter? by Matthew Evangelista,Nina Tannenwald Pdf

The Geneva Conventions are the best-known and longest-established laws governing warfare, but what difference do they make to how states engage in armed conflict? Since the start of the "War on Terror" with 9/11, these protocols have increasingly been incorporated into public discussion. We have entered an era where contemporary wars often involve terrorism and guerrilla tactics, but how have the rules that were designed for more conventional forms of interstate violence adjusted? Do the Geneva Conventions Matter? provides a rich, comparative analysis of the laws that govern warfare and a more specific investigation relating to state practice. Matthew Evangelista and Nina Tannenwald convey the extent and conditions that symbolic or "ritual" compliance translates into actual compliance on the battlefield by looking at important studies across history. To name a few, they navigate through the Algerian War for independence from France in the 1950s and 1960s; the US wars in Korea, Vietnam, Iraq, and Afghanistan; Iranian and Israeli approaches to the laws of war; and the legal obligations of private security firms and peacekeeping forces. Thoroughly researched, this work adds to the law and society literature in sociology, the constructivist literature in international relations, and legal scholarship on "internalization." Do the Geneva Conventions Matter? gives insight into how the Geneva regime has constrained guerrilla warfare and terrorism and the factors that affect protect human rights in wartime.

Author : Stan M. Haynes
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2014-01-10
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780786490301

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The First American Political Conventions by Stan M. Haynes Pdf

For almost two centuries, Americans have relied upon political conventions to provide the nation with new leadership. The modern convention, a four-day, carefully choreographed, prime-time television event designed to portray the party and its candidate in the most favorable light, continues many of the traditions and rules developed during the first conventions in the mid-19th century. This study analyzes the birth of the convention process in the 1830s and follows its development over 40 years, chronicling each of the presidential elections between 1832 and 1872, the leading candidates, and an analysis of the key issues, and memorable speeches and events on the convention floor. Other topics include back-room deal making, "dark horse" candidacies, meeting halls, parades, rallies, and other accompanying hoopla. This volume reveals the origins of a quintessentially American spectacle and sheds new light on an understudied aspect of the nation's political past.