The Science of Meaning
Essays on the Metatheory of Natural Language Semantics
(Sprache: Englisch)
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,...
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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.
Inhaltsverzeichnis zu „The Science of Meaning “
- 0: Derek Ball and Brian Rabern: Introduction to the science of meaning
- 1: Pauline Jacobson: What is - or, for that matter, isn't - 'experimental' semantics?
- 2: Wesley H. Holliday and Thomas F. Icard, III: Axiomatization in the meaning sciences
- 3: Robert Stalnaker: David Lewis on context
- 4: François Recanati: From meaning to content
- 5: Bryan Pickel, Brian Rabern, and Josh Dever: Reviving the parameter revolution in semantics
- 6: Barbara Partee: Changing notions of linguistic competence in the history of formal semantics
- 7: Michael Glanzberg: Lexical meaning, concepts, and the metasemantics of predicates
- 8: Kathrin Glüer: Interpretation and the interpreter
- 9: Inés Crespo, Hadil Karawani, and Frank Veltman: Expressing expectations
- 10: Thomas Ede Zimmermann: Fregean compositionality
- 11: Paul Pietroski: Semantic typology and composition
- 12: Seth Yalcin: Semantics as model-based science
- 13: Wolfgang Schwarz: Semantic possibility
- 14: Derek Ball: Semantics as measurement
Autoren-Porträt
Derek Ball is a lecturer in philosophy at the University of St Andrews. His professional interests include the philosophy of language and philosophy of mind.Brian Rabern is a lecturer in philosophy at the University of Edinburgh. His main research interests centre around philosophy of language, logic, and formal semantics.
Bibliographische Angaben
- 2018, 422 Seiten, Maße: 16,1 x 24,1 cm, Gebunden, Englisch
- Herausgegeben: Derek Ball, Brian Rabern
- Verlag: Oxford University Press
- ISBN-10: 0198739540
- ISBN-13: 9780198739548
- Erscheinungsdatum: 26.07.2018
Sprache:
Englisch
Pressezitat
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. Giosuè Baggio, Journal of Logic, Language and Information
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