WHAT COMES FIRST IN DYNAMIC SEMANTICS by David I. Beaver ( 9781575861203 )

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WHAT COMES FIRST IN DYNAMIC SEMANTICS
A CRITICAL REVIEW OF LINGUISTIC THEORIES OF PRESUPPOSITION AND A DYNAMIC ALTERNATIVE

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David I. Beaver

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THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PRESS

Pub. date:

4 March, 2002

Series:

Studies in Logic, Language & Information

Pages:

250

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This book contains the most comprehensive overview and critical discussion of Linguistic Presupposition published to date.

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Russell and Strawson sparked a well known debate on the subject of Linguistic Presupposition inspiring many linguists and philosophers to follow suit, including Frege, whose work initiated the modern study in this area. Beaver begins with the most comprehensive overview and critical discussion of this burgeoning field published to date. He then goes on to motivate and develop his own account based on a Dynamic Semantics. This account is a recent line of theoretical work in which the Tarskian emphasis on truth conditions is questioned. The central plank of the theory of meaning is a formal account of the change in information effected by use of language on hearers or readers. The proposal thus consolidates ideas of Stalnaker, Karttunen and Heim, all of whom had suggested that such an account was needed. At the same time it provides a new impulse and motivation to Dynamic Semantics itself.

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