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• W65722829 abstract "BORG, Emma. Pursuing Meaning. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012. xv + 234pp. Cloth, $65.00--Borg defends the traditional, albeit currently heterodox, view of minimal semantics. She defines the position in terms of four theses. (i) Declarative sentences express truth-evaluable contents (that is, propositions); (ii) such contents are determinately fixed by the syntax and lexical content of the constituents of a sentence; (iii) context-sensitive expressions are limited to a small overt set; and (iv) the contents as expressed by a speaker are graspable by a competent hearer without access to the intentions of the speaker. I say this position is traditional, for it more or less corresponds to the Gricean view that sentence meaning and speaker meaning are clearly separable, at least along certain dimensions. For Borg, semantics can be fruitfully pursued by targeting the contents of declarative sentences independently of an assessment of how the context or intentions of a speaker enter into what the speaker intends on a given occasion, save for the evaluation of the small set of context-sensitive items (he, that, and so forth). The position is also heterodox, for most current theorists of pragmatics and natural language semantics reject one or all of the above theses; in particular, some form of pragmatism is now orthodox, which has it that linguistic content alone is rarely, if ever, propositional. The expression of propositions requires the linguistic material of an utterance to be supplemented with contextual and intentional factors, which perforce make language rife with context-sensitivity. Borg, however, is not simply out of touch with current work. She mounts a sustained argument for the coherence and explanatory reach of her position in the face of a multitude of objections. Right or wrong, Borg articulates an interesting position that deserves, and will no doubt receive, much critical attention. Borg opens with a survey chapter that serves as an expert introduction to the varied positions within the debate. Borg does a very good job of effectively arguing that her theses (i)-(iv) should be a baseline, and that movement away from them requires substantial support, which is mostly absent. For instance, appeals to hidden variables to support the putative contextual parameters of content are common, but much less common is any kind of linguistic support for such variables. The next three chapters broach a range of empirical issues in psychology and linguistics. Rather than argue directly for minimalism, Borg judiciously assesses the problems that beset all semantic accounts, and concludes that minimalism is by no means worse off. The final two chapters of the book hold the greatest interest, I think, for they break some new ground in the semantic-pragmatics debate and raise fundamental issues for the field as a whole. …" @default.
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