The Science of Meaning
Essays on the Metatheory of Natural Language Semantics
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Date of Publication: 30 July 2020
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Product details:
| ISBN13: | 9780198865735 |
| ISBN10: | 0198865732 |
| Binding: | Paperback |
| No. of pages: | 432 pages |
| Size: | 234x155x22 mm |
| Weight: | 1 g |
| Language: | English |
| 233 |
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Short description:
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.
Long description:
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.
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.
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
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
