books by Herman Cappelen

books by Herman Cappelen

books:

Herman Cappelen

Language Turned on Itself: The Semantics and Pragmatics of Metalinguistic Discourse
Herman Cappelen, Ernest Lepore

Oxford University Press, USA, 2007

Language Turned on Itself examines what happens when language becomes self-reflexive; when language is used to talk about language. Those who think, talk and write about language are compulsive users of various metalinguistic devices, but reliance on these devices begins early: kids are told, 'That's called a "rabbit"'. It's not implausible that ...

Relativism and Monadic Truth
Herman Cappelen, John Hawthorne

Oxford University Press, USA, 2009

Relativism has dominated many intellectual circles, past and present, but the twentieth century saw it banished to the fringes of mainstream analytic philosophy. Of late, however, it is making something of a comeback within that loosely configured tradition, a comeback that attempts to capitalize on some important ideas in foundational semantics. ...

Insensitive Semantics: A Defense of Semantic Minimalism and Speech Act Pluralism
Herman Cappelen, Ernest Lepore

Wiley-Blackwell, 2005

Insensitive Semantics is an overview of and contribution to the debates about how to accommodate context sensitivity within a theory of human communication, investigating the effects of context on communicative interaction and, as a corollary, what a context of utterance is and what it is to be in one. Provides detailed and wide-ranging ...