Context and Content

Essays on Intentionality in Speech and Thought
Stalnaker, Robert C. (Professor and Chair, Department of Linguistics and Philosophy, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA)
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Hardback
293 pages
Index
Published: 1999
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN / EAN: 0198237081

This text develops a philosophical picture of the nature of speech and thought and the relations between them. It discusses the role that the context in which speech takes place plays in accounting for the way language is used to express thought.