Words and thoughts : subsentences, ellipsis, and the philosophy of language / Robert J. Stainton.

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. This work interrogates this idea, drawing on a body of evidence to argue that speakers can and do use mere words, not sentences, to communicate complex tho...

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Main Author: Stainton, Robert
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Published: Oxford : New York : Clarendon Press ; Published in the United States by Oxford University Press, 2006.
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505 0 |a The appearances and some background -- Introduction : the appearances, and what they might mean -- Further background issues -- The genuineness issue -- Not a full-fledged speech act? -- Extra-grammatical maneuvers -- Semantic ellipsis -- Syntactic ellipsis -- A divide-and-conquer strategy -- A positive representational-pragmatic view -- Implications -- Language : thought relations -- Sentence primacy -- Sentences, assertion, and the semantics-pragmatics boundary. 
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