The Science of Meaning
Essays on the Metatheory of Natural Language Semantics
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 2 August 2018
- ISBN 9780198739548
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages422 pages
- Size 240x163x29 mm
- Weight 768 g
- Language English
- Illustrations With language we command, assert, query, emote, insult, and inspire. Language has meaning, and semantics is the science of linguistic meaning. But what exactly is <"meaning>"? What is the exact target of semantic theory? This volume explores these questi 0
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With language we command, assert, query, emote, insult, and inspire. Language has meaning, and semantics is the science of linguistic meaning. But what exactly is "meaning"? What is the exact target of semantic theory? This volume explores these questions, in the light of the current state of the art in natural language semantics.
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By creating certain marks on paper, or by making certain sounds-breathing past a moving tongue-or by articulation of hands and bodies, language users can give expression to their mental lives. With language we command, assert, query, emote, insult, and inspire. Language has meaning. This fact can be quite mystifying, yet a science of linguistic meaning-semantics-has emerged at the intersection of a variety of disciplines: philosophy, linguistics, computer science, and psychology. Semantics is the study of meaning. But what exactly is "meaning"? What is the exact target of semantic theory? Much of the early work in natural language semantics was accompanied by extensive reflection on the aims of semantic theory, and the form a theory must take to meet those aims. But this meta-theoretical reflection has not kept pace with recent theoretical innovations. This volume re-addresses these questions concerning the foundations of natural language semantics in light of the current state-of-the-art in semantic theorising.
Ball and Rabern have collected a set of prestigious chapters that well represent the current state of reflections on the nature, structure, and foundations of theories in mainstream FS. The volume will be of great interest to semanticists and contains a fair number of must-read essays (e.g., by Partee, Recanati, Yalcin) that could easily also be appreciated by linguists, cognitive scientists, and philosophers of language.
Table of Contents:
Introduction to the science of meaning
What is - or, for that matter, isn't - 'experimental' semantics?
Axiomatization in the meaning sciences
David Lewis on context
From meaning to content
Reviving the parameter revolution in semantics
Changing notions of linguistic competence in the history of formal semantics
Lexical meaning, concepts, and the metasemantics of predicates
Interpretation and the interpreter
Expressing expectations
Fregean compositionality
Semantic typology and composition
Semantics as model-based science
Semantic possibility
Semantics as measurement
