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3 Adjudicate objection 7 or objection 8.
Further reading
· The simplest and most natural introduction I know to the Possible-
Worlds version of truth-conditional semantics is Lewis (1970). Then
work up to Cresswell (1973). (Tough stuff, requiring knowledge of
formal logic and set theory; but it all came from something much
tougher, collected posthumously in Montague (1974).)
· Two good textbook introductions to Montague Grammar are
Chierchia and McConnell-Ginet (1990) and Weisler (1991).
Part III
Pragmatics and speech acts
11 Semantic pragmatics
Overview
Linguistic pragmatics is characterized as studying linguistic expressions' uses
in social contexts. But there are two importantly different ways in which an
expression's use depends on context. First, owing to the presence of such
deictic elements as personal pronouns and tense, a sentence's propositional
content varies from context to context (recall that "I am sick now" says dif-
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