An Introduction: Foundational Issues in Semantics and Pragmatics
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An Introduction: Foundational Issues in Semantics and Pragmatics Tadeusz Ciecierski1 • Paweł Grabarczyk2 Received: 7 September 2020 / Accepted: 12 October 2020 The Author(s) 2020
Abstract This introduction to the special issue ‘Foundational issues in semantics and pragmatics’ contains a brief description of the content of the volume. Keywords Semantics Pragmatics Philosophy of Language Philosophy of Linguistics
The current special issue of Axiomathes is intended to address variety of foundational issues in semantics and pragmatics. The idea of the special issue has its origins at the second Context, Cognition and Communication conference held at the University of Warsaw in June 2018. After the conference we have decided to invite the conference participants to submit their papers for the special issue, we have also announced the open call for papers that attracted a large number of submissions. The special issue contains the best papers that successfully passed the review process. The topic of the special issue was originally intended to be broad enough to cover numerous themes that are discussed in the fields of philosophy of language, philosophy of linguistics and philosophical logic. The main idea was to account for the proliferation of theories and methods of dealing with language by looking back at some of the common foundational problems of the discipline. We believe that the content of the volume reflects the initial idea very well. The issue starts with the paper by Andrei Moldovan in which the authors defend the thesis that tests for ambiguity do actually work for homonymy (e.g. ‘‘bank’’) and irregular polysemy & Tadeusz Ciecierski [email protected] Paweł Grabarczyk [email protected] 1
Department of Philosophy, University of Warsaw, Uniwersytet Warszawski, ul. Krakowskie Przedmies´ci3 3, 00-927 Warsaw, Poland
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IT University of Copenhagen & Institute of Philosophy, University of Lodz, Rued Langgaards Vej 7 DK-2300 Copenhagen S Denmark Building: 4F16-4T86, Lodz, Poland
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(e.g. ‘‘button’’, ‘‘cold’’) but have limited application in the case of regular polysemy (e.g. ‘‘bowl’’ as container and as unit of food). The author applies his analysis to the discussion over the issue of the alleged ambiguity of definite descriptions. In the next paper of the volume Jose Manuel Viejo sketches an original indexical theory of belief attributions. Its main idea is to take that-clauses of attitude reports to refer to contextually salient representation-propositional content pairs (‘interpreted representations’). Pelle Leth in Utterance Interpretation and Actual Intentions argues that in the process of communication the actual communicative intentions of the speaker are irrelevant as the hearer is interested at most in what the speaker present as her intention as well as in the interpretation of the utterance that is acceptable for the speaker. The topic of utterance interpretation is also addressed in Joanna Odrowa˛z_ Sypniewska’s paper. She arg
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