Geography of Context (eBook)

Nicholas Fotion (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2019
120 Seiten
Hamilton Books (Verlag)
978-0-7618-7104-0 (ISBN)

Infos

We cannot use language without having context in place. But context is not a single thing. Instead, typically, each use of language presupposes a complex set of beliefs, habits, behaviors, and moral commitments.

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When we use language, we presuppose many different things. Context is another name for these presuppositions. But it also can be the name of all these different presuppositions ordered in a certain way. This study of context focuses on the differences since many studies of context focus excessively on usage found in the sciences and in everyday observations. Other uses such as promising, giving directions, evaluating (i.e., ranking) all sorts of things around us, expressing our feelings, and issuing declarations (e.g., ';You are promoted') are equally important. The analogy of ';geography,' as used in this study, suggests that one important way to study context is to attend to all, not just one, of the ';continents' found in the ';planet' that we call context. Once we learn our geography lesson, we come to a better understanding of how context can change, how it can be ordered, and how it can be examined. We also learn how layered, and thus how complicated it is.

Autor

Nicholas Fotion, emeritus professor of philosophy, Emory University, has authored twelve books and over one hundred articles. Theory and Anti-Theory in Ethics is his most recent book.

Inhalt

Introduction Chapter 1 Text and Context Chapter 2 More Surface Material Chapter 3 Social Contexts Chapter 4 Ethical (Moral) Memories Chapter 5 Empirical Contexts Chapter 6 More Empirical and Normative Contexts Chapter 7 “Logic” and Contexts Chapter 8 Still More “Logic” Chapter 9 Expressives and Declarations Chapter 10 Putting it Together Chapter 11 Four Processes Chapter 12 Interpretation Chapter 13 Closing Thoughts Bibliography Index About the Author

Produkt-Details

• Verlagsort: Lanham
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Sprachphilosophie
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Sprachwissenschaft
• Schlagworte: assertives • commissives • ConText • declarations • Directives • evaluatives • Expressives • master speech acts • presuppositions • Speech Acts
• ISBN-10: 0-7618-7104-7 / 0761871047
• ISBN-13: 978-0-7618-7104-0 / 9780761871040