Thesis
Essays on semantic content and context-sensitivity
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The thesis comprises three foundational studies on the topics named in its title, together with an introduction.
Ch. 1 argues against a popular combination of views in the philosophy of language: Propositionality, which says that the semantic values of natural language sentences (relative to contexts) are the propositions they express (in those contexts) and Compositionality, which says that the semantic value of a complex expression of a natural language (in a context) is determine...
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+ Hawthorne, J
Division:
HUMS
Department:
Philosophy Faculty
Role:
Supervisor
+ Cian, D
Division:
HUMS
Department:
Philosophy Faculty
Role:
Supervisor
Bibliographic Details
- Publication date:
- 2012
- Type of award:
- DPhil
- Level of award:
- Doctoral
- Awarding institution:
- University of Oxford
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- Language:
- English
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- Local pid:
- ora:6768
- Deposit date:
- 2013-03-20
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- Copyright holder:
- Yli-Vakkuri, TJ
- Copyright date:
- 2012
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