The Observable Limits of Compositionality from the Perspective of the Elaboration of Texts and the Textual Interpretation
Abstract
The principle of compositionality has been well accepted by certain currents of the philosophy of language and linguis- tics. However, they have raised the ques- tioned of this priniciple’s validity in the analysis of natural language. The princi- pal issues noticed are related to contex- tual or pragmatic aspects. The aim of this work is to show that there are some cases of natural language in which the princi- ple of compositionality, in its traditional version, is limited and, therefore, inop- erative. I will defend that the principle of compositionality meets other limits if we analyze the meaning of linguistic con- structions in the light of Text Linguistics.References
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