Occasion-sensitive semantics

Authors
Publication date 2017
Host editors
  • P. Brézillon
  • R. Turner
  • C. Penco
Book title Modeling and Using Context
Book subtitle 10th International and Interdisciplinary Conference, CONTEXT 2017, Paris, France, June 20-23, 2017 : proceedings
ISBN
  • 9783319578361
ISBN (electronic)
  • 9783319578378
Series Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Event Modeling and Using Context
Pages (from-to) 254-266
Publisher Cham: Springer
Organisations
  • Interfacultary Research - Institute for Logic, Language and Computation (ILLC)
Abstract
In this paper we provide a formal model for occasion-sensitive semantics motivated by so called ‘Travis cases’ (Travis 1978, 2000, 2008, 2009). We suggest that understanding of an utterance of φ (knowing its truth conditions) can be modelled as a twofold partitioning of worlds in logical space, where the initial partition is induced by the context-invariant meaning of the sentence uttered and the latter on the basis of context-dependent goals. Our model uses only a single parameter to capture occasion-sensitivity of sentences: practical goals.
Document type Conference contribution
Language English
Published at https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-57837-8_20
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