CONTEXT AND COHERENCE C

Natural languages are riddled with context-sensitivity, yet how do we understand one another so effortlessly? Contrary to the dominant position, this book argues that meaning is determined entirely by discourse conventions, as we draw on a broad array of subtle linguistic conventions that determine the interpretation of context-sensitive items.

Una Stojni- is an assistant professor of philosophy in the Department of Philosophy, Princeton University. Prior to joining Princeton, she was an assistant professor in the Department of Philosophy at Columbia University, a Bersoff assistant professor and faculty fellow in Philosophy at NYU, and a research fellow in philosophy in the School of Philosophy at ANU. She earned her PhD in Philosophy and a Certificate in Cognitive Science from Rutgers University in 2016.

1: Introduction
Part I: So, What is Context and How Does it Work?
2: The Model of a True Demonstrative: Extra-linguistic Effects on Situated Meaning
3: An Alleged Ambiguity and the Dynamics of Context Change
4: Pointing Things Out: Prominence and the Attentional State of a Discourse
5: Context and Discourse Conventions
6: Interlude: Context and Common Ground
Part II: Contextualizing Content
7: Content in Context
8: The Challenge: Non-propositionalism
9: Dynamic Propositionalism
Part III: The Logic of Prominence
10: Content, Context and Logic
11: Prominence Semantics for Modality
Part IV: Conclusions and Directions
12: The Grammar of Prominence
Part V: Appendices
Appendix A: Formal Definitions for the Attention-Coherence Approach to Pronoun Resolution
Appendix B: A Formal Language for Modality with Coherence