Linguistic Pragmatism and Weather Reporting

by John Collins

Linguistic pragmatism claims that what we literally say goes characteristically beyond what the linguistic properties themselves mandate. In this book, John Collins provides a novel defence of this doctrine, arguing that linguistic meaning alone fails to fix truth conditions. While this position is supported by a range of theorists, Collins shows that it naturally follows from a syntactic thesis concerning the relative sparseness of what language...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198851138
• ISBN13: 9780198851134
• Release Date: May 2020
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.4" x 8.6"