This paper presents an attempt to point out some problematic issues about the
understanding of context. Although frequently used in cognitive sciences or other …

Stefano Predelli comes to the defence of the traditional'formal'approach to natural-language
semantics, arguing that it has been misrepresented not only by its critics, but also by its …

Vague words, like" tall,"" rich," and" old," lack clear boundaries of application: no clear line
divides the tall people from the above average, or the old people from the middle-aged …

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Laterza Page 2 Biblioteca Essenziale Laterza Claudia Bianchi Pragmatica del linguaggio …

In my paper, I present two competing perspectives on the foundational problem (as opposed
to the descriptive problem) of quantifier domain restriction: the objective perspective on …

Abstract In “Demonstratives” Kaplan claims that the occurrence of a demonstrative must be
supplemented by an act of demonstration, like a pointing (a feature of the objective context) …

Contextualism in philosophy of language and in epistemology are two distinct but closely
entangled projects. The epistemological thesis is grounded in a semantic claim concerning …

In this paper I defend the “Standard View” of the semantics of 'I'—according to which 'I'is a
pure, automatic indexical—from a challenge posed by “deferred reference” cases, in which …

Este artículo de revisión descriptiva aborda las bases teóricas del método pragmalingüístico
en cuanto aplicable a la exégesis de los textos bíblicos. En un primer momento explica sus …

According to epistemological contextualism, a sentence of the form “S knows that p” doesn't
express a complete proposition. Different utterances of the sentence, in different contexts …