Semantics-Pragmatics Distinction

3 models Szabo&King(2005)

Weak pragmatic effect (semantic role of context): context affect what is communicated by affecting content via resolution of context-sensitive elements in the sentence uttered.

Strong pragmatic effect (pragmatic role of context): context affect what is communicated over and abov semantic content

  1. Semantics: only unrelatized standing meanings - semantic content bearers are expression types (e.g. Montague)
  2. 2 levels of semantic value: non relativized -+ relativized to context (where context fixes semantic content only insofar is follows the syntactic composition (e.g. Szabo&King(2005))
  3. Only automatic indexical (not involving intentions) are considered for a context as relevant for contributing to semantic content (Bach2002a??)