Guest editor:
Maria Matuszkiewicz (University of Warsaw)
Deadline for submissions:
the 31st of December 2023
Description
The special issue of Studia Semiotyczne is meant to collect papers offering a development and critical discussion of the ideas presented in Una Stojnić’s "Context and Coherence: The Logic and Grammar of Prominence" (Oxford University Press, 2021). Papers should be written in English and prepared for blind review.
Una Stojnić’ "Context and Coherence" (2021) offers a novel account of the interaction between context and content, which applies not only to demonstratives and modals (the book’s main focus) but to all context-sensitive expressions. Drawing on linguistic studies of linguistic conventions (such as discourse coherence relations, prosody, and others), Stojnić argues that the meaning of context-sensitive expressions is determined by grammar, contrary to a standard view. The linguistic account of context developed in the book resolves puzzles that motivate relativist semantics, thus questioning the rationale for postulating non-propositional contents. We invite submissions on various topics in dialogue with the views developed in "Context and Coherence".
In order to submit the paper one is kindly asked to submit the manuscript by sending it to:
studiasemiotyczne@pts.edu.pl and maria.j.matuszkiewicz@gmail.com
All submitted papers will be double-blind peer-reviewed.