That's not what you said! Semantic constraints on literal speech

Fisher, Sarah 2024. That's not what you said! Semantic constraints on literal speech. Mind and Language , pp. 1-16. 10.1111/mila.12508

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Abstract

According to some philosophers, a sentence's semantics can fail to constitute a complete propositional content, imposing mere constraints on such a content. Recently, Daniel Harris has begun developing a formal constraint semantics. He claims that the semantic values of sentences constrain what speakers can literally say with them—and what hearers can know about what was said. However, that claim is undermined by his conception of semantics as the study of a psychological module. I argue instead that semantic constraints should be understood as properties of public languages.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Published Online
Status:	Published
Schools:	English, Communication and Philosophy
Publisher:	Wiley
ISSN:	0268-1064
Date of Acceptance:	22 February 2024
Last Modified:	18 Sep 2024 14:15
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/172188

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