Data: dijous 6 de maig del 2021

Hora: 12.00 h

Lloc: en línia, amb Collaborate (enllaç: eu.bbcollab.com/guest/cbd918ec0de7403f94ba44b0a67b7a2d)

Resum: Most semantic theories of context-sensitive interpretation are based on the (mostly implicit) assumption that there is the utterance context; i.e. that there is one utterance context per utterance. In this talk, I will challenge this “one utterance, one context” assumption by collecting many problematic cases. This will lead to abandoning this basic assumption. However, instead of throwing semantic theories of context dependency like Kaplan’s framework over board because of these challenges, I suggest an expansion of the Kaplan-style approaches by what may be called “multicontexts”, by which I understand a supercontext that included a multitude of “classical” context and thus can solve the problems while keeping the over interpretational strategies the same.