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The field in question is actually Pragmatics, not Semantics, and the paper in question makes perfect sense to anyone with even an undergraduate-level exposure to Pragmatics which is all I have.
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In his seminal article "Pragmatics" (1970) Stalnaker proposed a conception of semantics and pragmatics that would allow the tools and traditions of formal semantics to be extended to pragmatics.
Pragmatics Korta, Kepa 2006
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In his essay "Pragmatics" (1968), Richard Montague generalized the concept of a possible world to deal with a number of phenomena, including indexicals.
Pragmatics Korta, Kepa 2006
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"Pragmatics" in Semantics of Natural Language, Donald Davidson and Gilbert Harman, eds.
States of Affairs Wetzel, Thomas 2003
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Jenny Thomas (in possibly one of the best books on the subject: Meaning in Interaction: An Introduction to Pragmatics (Longman 1995)) makes this her thesis, i.e. the view that meaning is not something that is inherent in the words alone, nor is it produced by the speaker alone, nor by the hearer alone.
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Pragmatics, however, tells me that I might be alienating the very people I want to be talking to, defeating the whole purpose, and if I really want that scabrous invective to be anything more than preaching to the shaitanic choir, I should tone it down.
On Profanity: 2 Hal Duncan 2009
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Pragmatics of McLean named Max Hall chief operating officer and Stephen Hughes chief financial officer.
Appointments for the week of Oct. 4 Post 2010
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Pragmatics, however, tells me that I might be alienating the very people I want to be talking to, defeating the whole purpose, and if I really want that scabrous invective to be anything more than preaching to the shaitanic choir, I should tone it down.
Archive 2009-01-01 Hal Duncan 2009
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Pragmatics of McLean named Max Hall chief operating officer and Stephen Hughes chief financial officer.
Appointments for the week of Oct. 4 Post 2010
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A Comparison of monolingual speech and bilingual codeswitching discourse, Journal of Pragmatics, 32; (9), pp 1305-1341.
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