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- The Cambridge Handbook of the Philosophy of Language
- Cambridge Handbooks in Language and Linguistics
- The Cambridge Handbook of the Philosophy of Language
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Contributors
- Preface
- 1 Philosophy of Language: Definitions, Disciplines, and Approaches
- Part I The Past, Present, and Future of Philosophy of Language
- Part II Some Foundational Issues
- Part III From Truth to Vagueness
- Part IV Issues in Semantics and Pragmatics
- 17 Entailment, Presupposition, Implicature
- 18 Speech Acts, Actions, and Events
- 19 Propositions, Predication, and Assertion
- 20 Events in Semantics
- 21 Semantics and Generative Grammar
- 22 Metasemantics: A Normative Perspective (and the Case of Mood)
- 23 The Normativity of Meaning and Content
- 24 The Semantics and Pragmatics of Value Judgments
- 25 Slurs: Semantic and Pragmatic Theories of Meaning
- Part V Philosophical Implications and Linguistic Theories
- Part VI Some Extensions
- References
- Index
23 - The Normativity of Meaning and Content
from Part IV - Issues in Semantics and Pragmatics
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 12 November 2021
- The Cambridge Handbook of the Philosophy of Language
- Cambridge Handbooks in Language and Linguistics
- The Cambridge Handbook of the Philosophy of Language
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Contributors
- Preface
- 1 Philosophy of Language: Definitions, Disciplines, and Approaches
- Part I The Past, Present, and Future of Philosophy of Language
- Part II Some Foundational Issues
- Part III From Truth to Vagueness
- Part IV Issues in Semantics and Pragmatics
- 17 Entailment, Presupposition, Implicature
- 18 Speech Acts, Actions, and Events
- 19 Propositions, Predication, and Assertion
- 20 Events in Semantics
- 21 Semantics and Generative Grammar
- 22 Metasemantics: A Normative Perspective (and the Case of Mood)
- 23 The Normativity of Meaning and Content
- 24 The Semantics and Pragmatics of Value Judgments
- 25 Slurs: Semantic and Pragmatic Theories of Meaning
- Part V Philosophical Implications and Linguistic Theories
- Part VI Some Extensions
- References
- Index
Summary
Issues concerning the alleged normativity of meaning and content have been increasingly prominent since the publication, in 1982, of Saul Kripke’s celebrated Wittgenstein on Rules and Private Language.
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- The Cambridge Handbook of the Philosophy of Language , pp. 419 - 433Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2021
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