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From: Christopher Menzel <cmenzel@xxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2007 10:54:46 -0500
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Fabian Neuhaus wrote:
> ...
>
> The only people who made up their mind are logicians: according to them 
> whatever aspect of 'meaning' they can analyze with the help of a model 
> theory is semantics, everything else is pragmatics. This is the garbage 
> can definition of "pragmatics". :-)    (01)

And just to muddy the waters further, a large chunk of Montague 
semantics consists of the model theoretic analysis of many linguistic 
phenomena (notably, indexicals) that had, before Montague, largely been 
consigned to the pragmatic scrapheap.  Moreoever, this work is referred 
to (oxymoronically?) as "formal pragmatics".    (02)

-chris    (03)


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