Semantics, Metasemantics, Aboutness
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 16 February 2017
- ISBN 9780198792147
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages178 pages
- Size 223x142x18 mm
- Weight 338 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
Semantics aims to describe the significance of linguistic expressions in a systematic way. Metasemantics, or foundational semantics, asks how expressions gain their significance in the first place. Ori Simchen presents the first book-length treatment of metasemantics and its relation to the thriving research program of truth-conditional semantics.
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Semantics aims to describe the significance (or meaning) of linguistic expressions in a systematic way. Metasemantics, or foundational semantics, asks how expressions gain their significance in the first place - what makes it the case that expressions mean what they do.
Metasemantics has recently been discussed extensively by philosophers of language, philosophers of mind, and philosophically minded linguists and psychologists. A large concern is semantic indeterminacy, the worry that there is no fact of the matter as to the semantic significance of our words. Ori Simchen offers a distinctly metasemantic strategy to counter this threat.
Semantics, Metasemantics, Aboutness is the first book-length treatment of metasemantics and its relation to the thriving research program of truth-conditional semantics.
Let me conclude by saying that Semantics, Metasemantics, Aboutness is a rich and stimulating work, offering an original contribution to metasemantics, the philosophy of language, and the philosophy of mind. it is highly recommended for students and professionals in these areas, as well as to linguists, psychologists, and cognitive scientists.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
Metasemantics and Semantic Ascent
Appendix I: Lewisian Metasemantics
The Case of Singular Reference
Appendix II: Scrambled Truth
Appendix III: Reference to Numbers
Aboutness and Semantic Value
Case Study I: Productivism and Self-Reference
Case Study II: Metasemantics and Interpretation
Conclusion: Semantic Determinacy
