Goldstein, Laurence (2009) Wittgenstein and Situation Comedy. Philosophia, 37 (4). pp. 605-627. ISSN 0048-3893. (doi:10.1007/s11406-009-9192-6) (KAR id:28024)
Microsoft Word
Language: English |
|
Download this file (Microsoft Word/151kB) |
|
Request a format suitable for use with assistive technology e.g. a screenreader | |
Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11406-009-9192-6 |
Abstract
I examine how context is a determinant of the content of a speaker’s utterance. My concern is, obviously, with utterances in situ, but what may not be quite so obvious is why it is particularly profitable to study comic utterances. What is distinctive about situation comedy is that one form of humour that it features springs from the influence of context (situation). Much situation comedy is crude, barely amusing and completely devoid of philosophical interest. However, there is one element of the best-written sitcoms, the study of which beautifully illustrates a deep problem for cognitive science, throws a flood of light on central themes in Wittgenstein’s late, and late late, philosophy and provides the key to the solution of a number of outstanding problems in the philosophy of language. These are the large claims defended in this essay.
Item Type: | Article |
---|---|
DOI/Identification number: | 10.1007/s11406-009-9192-6 |
Uncontrolled keywords: | Wittgenstein situation comedy Recanati humour humor context Tanney ellipsis subsitutivity ambiguity Kripke |
Subjects: | B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion |
Divisions: | Divisions > Division of Arts and Humanities > School of Culture and Languages |
Depositing User: | Laurence Goldstein |
Date Deposited: | 22 Jul 2011 12:26 UTC |
Last Modified: | 16 Nov 2021 10:06 UTC |
Resource URI: | https://kar.kent.ac.uk/id/eprint/28024 (The current URI for this page, for reference purposes) |
- Link to SensusAccess
- Export to:
- RefWorks
- EPrints3 XML
- BibTeX
- CSV
- Depositors only (login required):