Cover not available
Part of
Handbook of Pragmatics: Manual
Edited by Jef Verschueren and Jan-Ola Östman
[Handbook of Pragmatics M2] 2022
► pp. 333–348

Contextualism

Article outline
  • 1.Two perspectives
  • 2.Semantic minimalism
  • 3.Indexicalism
  • 4.Radical contextualism
    • 4.1Overview
    • 4.2Wittgenstein, Austin, Searle, and Travis
    • 4.3Motivations for radical contextualism
    • 4.4Objections to radical contextualism
  • 5.Nonindexical contextualism
  • 6.Conclusion
  • Notes
  • References
Published online: 3 October 2022
DOI logo
https://doi.org/10.1075/hop.m2.con16
References (56)
References
Austin, J. 1961. Philosophical Papers. J. Urmson & G. Warnock (eds.) 1979. 3rd ed. Oxford University Press. Google Scholar
Bach, K. 2001. You don’t say? Synthèse 128: 15–44. DOI logoGoogle Scholar
2002. Seemingly semantic intuitions. In J. Keim Campbell, M. O’ Rourke & D. Shier (eds.) Meaning and Truth: 21–33. Seven Bridges Press. Google Scholar
2004. Minding the Gap. In C. Bianchi (ed.): 27–43. Google Scholar
Bezuidenhout, A. 2002. Truth-Conditional Pragmatics. Philosophical Perspectives 16: 105–34. Google Scholar
Bianchi, C. 2003. How to Refer: Objective Context vs. Intentional Context. In P. Blackburn et al. (eds.) Modeling and Using Context, CONTEXT ‘03, Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, vol. 2680: 54–65. Springer. DOI logoGoogle Scholar
2006. ‘Nobody loves me’: Quantification and context. Philosophical Studies 130: 377–97. DOI logoGoogle Scholar
2009. Pragmatica cognitiva. I meccanismi della comunicazione. Laterza. Google Scholar
(ed.) 2004. The Semantics/Pragmatics Distinction. CSLI Publications. Google Scholar
Borg, E. 2004. Minimal Semantics. Clarendon Press. DOI logoGoogle Scholar
2007. Minimalism versus Contextualism in Semantics. In G. Preyer & G. Peter (eds.) Context-Sensitivity and Semantic Minimalism. New Essays on Semantics and Pragmatics: 339–359. Oxford University Press. Google Scholar
Cappelen, H. & E. Lepore. 2005. Insensitive Semantics. A Defense of Semantic Minimalism and Speech Act Pluralism. Blackwell. Google Scholar
Carston, R. 2002. Thoughts and utterances: the pragmatics of explicit communication. Blackwell. DOI logo  MetBibGoogle Scholar
2004a. Relevance Theory and the Saying/Implicating Distinction. In L. R. Horn & G. Ward (eds.) Handbook of Pragmatics: 633–656. Blackwell. Google Scholar
2004b. Truth-Conditional Content and Conversational Implicature. In C. Bianchi (ed.): 65–100. Google Scholar
Corazza, E. 2007. Contextualism, minimalism, and situationalism. Pragmatics and Cognition (1): 115–137. DOI logoGoogle Scholar
Corazza, E. & J. Dokic. 2007. Sense and Insensibility Or Where Minimalism Meets Contextualism. In G. Preyer & G. Peter (eds.) Context-Sensitivity and Semantic Minimalism. New Essays on Semantics and Pragmatics: 169–193. Oxford University Press. Google Scholar
Garcia-Carpintero, M. & M. Kölbel (eds.) 2008. Relative Truth. Oxford University Press. DOI logoGoogle Scholar
Gauker, C. 1997. Domain of Discourse. Mind 106: 1–32. DOI logoGoogle Scholar
2003. Words without meaning. MIT Press. Google Scholar
Gibbs, R. & J. Moise. 1997. Pragmatics in Understanding What is Said. Cognition 62: 51–74. DOI logoGoogle Scholar
Grice, H. P. 1989. Studies in the Way of Words. Harvard University Press. Google Scholar
Kaplan, D. 1989. Afterthoughts. In J. Almog, J. Perry & H. Wettstein (eds.) Themes from Kaplan: 565–614. Oxford University Press. Google Scholar
Kölbel, M. 2008. Introduction: Motivations for Relativism. In M. Garcia-Carpintero & M. Kölbel (eds.): 1–40. DOI logoGoogle Scholar
Macfarlane, J. 2005. Making Sense of Relative Truth. Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society 105: 321–39. DOI logoGoogle Scholar
2007. Semantic Minimalism and Nonindexical Contextualism. In G. Preyer & G. Peter (eds.) Context-Sensitivity and Semantic Minimalism. New Essays on Semantics and Pragmatics: 240–250. Oxford University Press. Google Scholar
2009. Nonindexical Contextualism. Synthese 166: 231–250. DOI logoGoogle Scholar
Perry, J. 1986. Thought without Representation. In J. Perry (ed.) 1993. The Problem of the Essential Indexical and Other Essays: 205–218. Oxford University Press. DOI logoGoogle Scholar
1998. Indexicals, Contexts and Unarticulated Constituents. In A. Aliseda, R. Van Gabeek & D. Westerstahl (eds.) Computing Natural Language: 1–11. CSLI Publications. Google Scholar
Predelli, S. 2005a. Contexts. Meaning, Truth, and the Use of Language. Oxford University Press. . DOI logoGoogle Scholar
2005b. Painted Leaves, Context, and Semantic Analysis. Linguistics and Philosophy 28: 351–74. DOI logoGoogle Scholar
Recanati, F. 1993. Direct Reference: From Language to Thought. Blackwell. Google Scholar
1995. The Alleged Priority of Literal Interpretation. Cognitive Science 19: 207–232. DOI logo  MetBibGoogle Scholar
2001. What is Said. Synthese 128: 75–91. DOI logoGoogle Scholar
2004a. Literal Meaning. Cambridge University Press. Google Scholar
2004b. ‘What is said’ and the Semantics/Pragmatics Distinction. In C. Bianchi (ed.): 45–64. Google Scholar
2007. Perspectival Thought. A Plea for (Moderate) Relativism. Oxford University Press. DOI logoGoogle Scholar
2008. Moderate Relativism. In M. Garcia-Carpintero & M. Kölbel (eds.): 41–62. DOI logoGoogle Scholar
Sbisa, M. 2009. Contextualism without incompleteness. European Journal of Analytic Philosophy 5: 55–72. Google Scholar
Searle, J. 1979. Expression and Meaning. Cambridge University Press. DOI logoGoogle Scholar
1980. The Background of Meaning. In J. Searle, F. Kiefer & M. Bierwisch (eds.) Speech Act Theory and Pragmatics: 221–232. D. Reidel Publishing Company. DOI logoGoogle Scholar
1992. The Rediscovery of the Mind. MIT Press. DOI logoGoogle Scholar
Sperber, D. & D. Wilson. 1986/1995. Relevance. Communication and Cognition. Blackwell. Google Scholar
Stanley, J. 2000. Context and logical form. Linguistics and Philosophy 23: 391–434. DOI logoGoogle Scholar
Stanley, J. & Z. Szabò. 2000. On Quantifier Domain Restriction. Mind and Language 15(2): 219–261. DOI logoGoogle Scholar
Szabò, Z. G. 2006. Sensitivity training. Mind and Language 21(1): 31–38. DOI logoGoogle Scholar
(ed.) 2005. Semantics Versus Pragmatics. Oxford University Press. DOI logoGoogle Scholar
Taylor, K. 2001. Sex, breakfast, and descriptus interruptus. Synthese 128: 45–61. DOI logoGoogle Scholar
Travis, Ch. 1975. Saying and Understanding. Blackwell. Google Scholar
Travis, Ch. 1985. On What Is Strictly Speaking True. Canadian Journal of Philosophy 15: 187–229. . DOI logoGoogle Scholar
1996. Meaning's Role in Truth. Mind 105: 451–466. DOI logoGoogle Scholar
Travis, Ch 1997. Pragmatics. In B. Hale & C. Wright (eds.) A Companion to the Philosophy of Language: 87–107. Blackwell. Google Scholar
Turner, K. (ed.) 1999. The Semantics/Pragmatics Interface from Different Points of View (Current Research in the Semantics/Pragmatics Interface, vol. 1). Elsevier. Google Scholar
Waismann, F. 1940. Verifiability. In A. Flew (ed.) 1951. Logic and Language. Blackwell. Google Scholar
Wittgenstein, L. 1953. Philosophische Untersuchungen. Blackwell. Google Scholar