Billboards,bombs and shotgun weddings |
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Authors: | Andy Egan |
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Institution: | (1) Department of Philosophy, Australian National University, Canberra, ACT, Australia;(2) Department of Philosophy, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA |
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Abstract: | It’s a presupposition of a very common way of thinking about context-sensitivity in language that the semantic contribution
made by a bit of context-sensitive vocabulary is sensitive only to features of the speaker’s situation at the time of utterance.
I argue that this is false, and that we need a theory of context-dependence that allows for content to depend not just on
the features of the utterance’s origin, but also on features of its destination. There are cases in which a single utterance
semantically conveys different propositions to different members of its audience, which force us to say that what a sentence
conveys depends not just on the context in which it is uttered, but also on the context in which it is received. |
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Keywords: | Context Content Character |
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