The Idea of Code in Contextualism and Minimalism

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The Idea of Code in Contextualism and Minimalism

MÁCHA, Jakub

Základní údaje

Originální název

The Idea of Code in Contextualism and Minimalism

Název česky

Idea kódu v kontextualismu a minimalismu

Autoři

MÁCHA, Jakub (203 Česká republika, garant, domácí)

Vydání

Organon F, Bratislava, Filozofický ústav SAV, 2012, 1335-0668

Další údaje

Jazyk

angličtina

Typ výsledku

Článek v odborném periodiku

Obor

60300 6.3 Philosophy, Ethics and Religion

Stát vydavatele

Slovensko

Utajení

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

Odkazy

URL

Kód RIV

RIV/00216224:14210/12:00057381

Organizační jednotka

Filozofická fakulta

UT WoS

000311655800008

Klíčová slova česky

kód; kontextualismus; minimalismus; desambiguace

Klíčová slova anglicky

code; contextualism; minimalism; disambiguation

Štítky

rivok

Příznaky

Mezinárodní význam, Recenzováno

Změněno: 12. 4. 2013 18:45, Mgr. Vendula Hromádková

Anotace

V originále

In this paper I discuss the idea of a semantic code in the contemporary debate between contextualism and minimalism. First, I identify historical sources of these positions in Grice's pragmatics and in Davidson's theory of meaning in order to sketch the role of a semantic code there. Then I argue that contextualism is committed to the idea of an ad hoc code, while minimalism involves a persistent code. However, the latter approach to a code requires disambiguation which must be carried out in the early stages of speech act processing. I raise a concern that primary pragmatic processes may be active here, especially in the case of disambiguating polysemous expressions, which could be problematic or even devastating for the minimalist program. At the end I evaluate a possible minimalist way out by examining the minimalist account of metaphor, which lies at the root of polysemy. If a code robust enough to deal with polysemy could be created, minimalist conceptions would present a new impetus to understand language as a code. Without such a code, very little would be left of the notion of a persistent code and hence of minimalism itself.

Návaznosti

GPP401/11/P174, projekt VaV

Název: Interní a externí relace v analytické filosofie, především v díle Ludwiga Wittgensteina

Investor: Grantová agentura ČR, Interní a externí relace v analytické filosofii, především v díle Ludwiga Wittgensteina

Přiložené soubory

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Citovat

MÁCHA, Jakub. The Idea of Code in Contextualism and Minimalism. Organon F. Bratislava: Filozofický ústav SAV, 2012, roč. 19, suppl. 1, s. 116-136. ISSN 1335-0668.

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MÁCHA, Jakub. The Idea of Code in Contextualism and Minimalism. \textit{Organon F}. Bratislava: Filozofický ústav SAV, 2012, roč. 19, suppl. 1, s.~116-136. ISSN~1335-0668.

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