Author: Francois Recanati

The main argument of this book is that the notion of truth plays no role in speaker-hearers’ interpretation of linguistic utterances and that it is not needed for theoretical accounts of linguistic m …

Our thought and talk are situated. They do not take place in a vacuum but always in a context, and they always concern an external situation relative to which they are to be evaluated. Since that is …

Francois Recanati presents his theory of mental files, a new way of understanding reference in language and thought. He aims to recast the ‘nondescriptivist’ approach to reference that has dominated …

Francois Recanati has pioneered the ‘mental file’ framework for thinking about concepts and how we refer to the world in thought and language. Mental files are based on ‘epistemically rewarding’ rela …

Francois Recanati has pioneered the ‘mental file’ framework for thinking about concepts and how we refer to the world in thought and language. Mental files are based on ‘epistemically rewarding’ rela …

Ten leading scholars provide exacting research results and a reliable and accessible introduction to the new field of optimality theoretic pragmatics. The book includes a general introduction that ov …

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This volume brings together original papers by linguists and philosophers on the role of context and perspective in language and thought. Several contributions are concerned with the contextualism/re …

Among the entities that can be mentally or linguistically represented are mental and linguistic representations themselves. That is, we can think and talk about speech and thought. This phenomenon is …

The study of rationality and practical reason, or rationality in action, has been central to Western intellectual culture. In this invigorating book, John Searle lays out six claims of what he calls …