Accommodation and Negotiation with Context-Sensitive Expressions*

Contextualists and relativists about predicates of personal taste, epistemic modals, etc. (“CR-expressions”) agree that the interpretation of these expressions depends, in some sense, on context. Relativists claim that the sort of context-sensitivity exhibited by CR-expressions is importantly different from that exhibited by paradigm context-sensitive expressions, like de nite descriptions, demonstratives, quanti ers, etc. is bifurcation is oen motivated by the claim that the two classes of expressions behave differently in patterns of agreement and disagreement. I provide cases illustrating that the same sorts of discourse phenomena that have been thought problematic for contextualists can arise with paradigm context-sensitive expressions. ese cases motivate a more uni ed treatment of paradigm context-sensitive expressions and the expressions that have gured in recent contextualism-relativism debates.