History and philosophy of linguistics reading group The first meeting for 2010 will be on Monday March 15 from 57 in the Woolley Common Room (A20). We¹ll be reading Kent Johnson (2007) Tacit and accessible understanding of language. Synthese 156:253279 (abstract below). For more information and a link to the paper, go to the group¹s webpage,
http://groups.google.com.au/group/HPLinguistics/ Abstract The empirical nature of our understanding of language is explored. I first show that there are several important and different distinctions between tacit and accessible awareness. I then present empirical evidence concerning our understand- ing of language. The data suggests that our awareness of sentence-meanings is some- times merely tacit according to one of these distinctions, but is accessible according to another. I present and defend an interpretation of this mixed view. The present project is shown to impact on several diverse areas, including inferential role semantics and holism, the nature of learning, and the role of linguistics in the law. Enquiries: [email protected], 9036 7039
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