Words and thoughts: subsentences, ellipsis, and the philosophy of language

New York: Published in the United States by Oxford University Press (2006)
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It is a near truism of philosophy of language that sentences are prior to words--that they are the only things that fundamentally have meaning. Robert's Stainton's study interrogates this idea, drawing on a wide body of evidence to argue that speakers can and do use mere words, not sentences, to communicate complex thoughts.

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P107.S73 2006

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9780199250387   0199250383   9780199250394   0199250391

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10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199250387.001.0001

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Introduction: The Appearances, and What They Might Mean.  (pages 3-29)Robert J. Stainton
Further Background Issues.  (pages 30-46)Robert J. Stainton
Not A Full‐fledged Speech Act?  (pages 49-62)Robert J. Stainton
Extra‐Grammatical Maneuvers.  (pages 63-79)Robert J. Stainton
Semantic Ellipsis.  (pages 80-93)Robert J. Stainton
Syntactic Ellipsis.  (pages 94-144)Robert J. Stainton
A Divide‐and‐Conquer Strategy.  (pages 145-154)Robert J. Stainton
A Positive Representational–Pragmatic View.  (pages 155-174)Robert J. Stainton
Language–Thought Relations.  (pages 177-190)Robert J. Stainton
Sentence Primacy.  (pages 191-212)Robert J. Stainton
Sentences, Assertion, and the Semantics–Pragmatics Boundary.  (pages 213-232)Robert J. Stainton

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