Contexts in formal semantics

Philosophy Compass 5 (7):568-578 (2010)
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Recent philosophical literature has debated the question of how much context-relativity needs to be countenanced in precise semantic theories for natural languages and has displayed different conceptions of the way in which it might be accommodated. This article presents reasons to think that context-relativity is a phenomenon that semantic theory must accommodate and identifies some of the issues concerning how it ought to be accommodated.

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Christopher Gauker
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Contexts and Constraints on Use.Geoff Georgi - 2019 - Theoria 87 (1):136-151.
Paradoxes of truth-in-context-X.Christopher Gauker - 2021 - Philosophical Studies 180 (5-6):1467-1489.

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Literal Meaning.François Récanati - 2002 - New York: Cambridge University Press.

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