Contexts: Meaning, Truth, and the Use of Language by Stefano Predelli

ISBN: 9780199558117

Oxford University Press 06 November 2008

Paperback | 208 pages

Stefano Predelli comes to the defence of the traditional “formal” approach to natural‑language semantics, arguing that it has been misrepresented not only by its critics, but also by its foremost defenders. In *Contexts: Meaning, Truth, and the Use of Language* he offers a fundamental reappraisal, with particular attention to the treatment of indexicality and other forms of contextual dependence which have been the focus of much recent controversy. Predelli shows how his metasemantic approach deals with a variety of important semantic and philosophical puzzles, analyzes the relationship between indexicality and logical validity, and investigates the relationships between truth‑conditions and assignments of truth‑values at particular points of evaluation, demonstrating that contextualist worries do not undermine the traditional semantic approach. *Contexts* will be of great interest to philosophers of language and linguists. ([allbookstores.com](https://www.allbookstores.com/Contexts-Meaning-Truth-Use-Language/9780199558117?utm_source=chatgpt.com))