Barber, Alexander
(2011). What refers? How?
In: Turner, Ken ed.
Making Semantics Pragmatic.
Current Research in the Semantics/Pragmatics Interface (24).
Bingley: Emerald, pp. 49–80.
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Abstract
“Guns don’t kill people, people kill people.” This National Rifle Association slogan has a popular analogue in the philosophy of language: words don’t refer, people refer. This paper looks at how the question of what refers (Words/concepts? People? Both? Neither?) intersects with the phenomenon of opacity. The discussion is used to motivate an important revision to standard intention-based accounts of speaker reference, one that takes due account of the fact that distinct words can have the same referent.
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Book Chapter
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| Copyright Holders: |
2011 Emerald Group Publishing Limited |
| ISBN: |
0-85724-909-6, 978-0-85724-909-8 |
| Funders: |
AHRC |
| Keywords: |
semantic opacity; semantic pragmatic interface; speaker reference, semantic reference |
| Academic Unit/Department: |
Arts > Philosophy |
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| Item ID: |
29074 |
| Depositing User: |
Alexander Barber
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| Date Deposited: |
14 Jul 2011 08:49 |
| Last Modified: |
25 Oct 2012 10:25 |
| URI: |
http://oro.open.ac.uk/id/eprint/29074 |
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