The Semantics and Pragmatics of Appearance  

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Kac, Michael B.

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Language (ada di JSTOR) vol. 79 no. 1 (2003), page 189-196.
Fulltext: Vol. 79, No. 1, pp. 189-196.pdf (1.06MB)

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INTRODUCTION. Pitt and Katz (2000) propose an account of the semantics of expres- sions like plastic flower and kosher bacon (which I will here dub OXYMOROIDS), main- taining that a correct analysis requires reference to senses and thus enlisting them in an attack on extensionalism. Without claiming to make a case for extensionalism in general, I nonetheless submit that there is a different and more plausible analysis of oxymoroids on the basis of which their extensions are compositionally determined in the same prosaic way as those of unproblematical cases like plastic spoon and kosher beef, and that reference to senses is unnecessary in accounting for them. The approach I have in mind is partly pragmatic in nature but involves no wild card elements-or at least none that do not have clear analogues in widely accepted treatments of other phenomena-and can be extended in natural ways to cover a variety of additional facts to which Pitt and Katz's analysis does not apply.

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