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Inferentialism and the Compositionality of Meaning

Inferentialism and the Compositionality of Meaning <jats:sec><jats:title>Abstract</jats:title><jats:p>Inferentialism is a species of use-theory of meaning, which, however, identifies meanings neither with regularities of usage, nor with underlying dispositions, but rather with 'rules' of usage. is is, of course, underlain by the picture of language as an essentially rule governed enterprise. One of the frequent challenges to the inferentialist picture is that it cannot come up with a notion of meaning that would be compositional. In this paper I address this objection (as well as some other, related ones) and I show that it stems from a miscontrual of the inferentialist standpoint.</jats:p> </jats:sec> http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png International Review of Pragmatics Brill

Inferentialism and the Compositionality of Meaning

Peregrin, Jaroslav
International Review of Pragmatics , Volume 1 (1): 154 – Jan 1, 2009
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Brill
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© 2009 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
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1877-3095
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1877-3109
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10.1163/187731009X455875
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Abstract

<jats:sec><jats:title>Abstract</jats:title><jats:p>Inferentialism is a species of use-theory of meaning, which, however, identifies meanings neither with regularities of usage, nor with underlying dispositions, but rather with 'rules' of usage. is is, of course, underlain by the picture of language as an essentially rule governed enterprise. One of the frequent challenges to the inferentialist picture is that it cannot come up with a notion of meaning that would be compositional. In this paper I address this objection (as well as some other, related ones) and I show that it stems from a miscontrual of the inferentialist standpoint.</jats:p> </jats:sec>

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International Review of Pragmatics – Brill

Published: Jan 1, 2009

Keywords: COMPOSITIONALITY; INFERENTIALISM; SEMANTICS

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