From Whorf to Montague
Explorations in the Theory of Language
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 3 October 2013
- ISBN 9780199682195
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages384 pages
- Size 237x162x30 mm
- Weight 720 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
This book explores the relations between language, the world, and the mind. Pieter Seuren argues that language requires a theory with abstract principles and that grammars are neither autonomous nor independent of meaning but mediate between propositionally structured thoughts and systems, such as speech, for the production of utterances.
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This book explores the relations between language, the world, the minds of individual speakers, and the collective minds of particular language communities. Pieter Seuren examines the status of abstract rule systems underlying speech and considers how much computational power may be attributed to the human mind. The book opens with chapters on the social reality of language, the ancient question of the primacy of language or thought, and the relation between universal and language-specific features. Professor Seuren then considers links between language, logic, and mathematics: he suggests the facts of language require a theory with abstract principles, and that grammars should be seen as mediating between propositionally structured thoughts and systems, such as speech, for the production of utterances. He argues that grammars are neither autonomous nor independent of meaning. He concludes by considering how a fundamental rephrasing of the basic principles of logic could reconnect it with cognition and language and involve a principled rejection of possible-world semantics.
Seuren's most recent contribution to the field of linguistics sets out to lay the foundations for a research program that conceives of grammar as consisting in a semantically rich natural logic mediating propositional thoughts and systems responsible for the production of utterances. [] Recommended.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
The Settling of a Language
The Whorf Hypothesis
Relativism or a Universal Theory?
What Does Language have to do With Logic and Mathematics?
A Testbed for Grammatical Theories
The Chomsky Hierarchy in Perspective
Reflexivity and Identity in Language and Cognition
The Generalized Logic Hierarchy and its Cognitive Implications
The Intensionalization of Extensions
Bibliography
Index
