Herman Cappelen

When theorizing about language, we tend to assume that speakers are cooperative, honest, helpful, and so on. This, of course, isn't remotely true of a lot of real-world language use. Bad Language is t...

The Semantics and Pragmatics of Metalinguistic Discourse di (autore) Herman Cappelen di (autore) Ernest Lepore

The Semantics and Pragmatics of Metalinguistic Discourse di (autore) Herman Cappelen di (autore) Ernie Lepore

This volume brings together two series of papers: one began with Herman Cappelen and Ernie Lepore's 1997 paper 'On an Alleged Connection Between the Theory of Meaning and Indirect Speech'....

Philosophical Foundations di (autore) Herman Cappelen di (autore) Josh Dever

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It is a fundamental feature of language that words refer to things. Much attention has been devoted to the nature of reference, both in philosophy and in linguistics. Puzzles of Reference is the first...