The Science of Meaning

NOTE EDITORE

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.

SOMMARIO

0 - Introduction to the science of meaning1 - What is - or, for that matter, isn't - 'experimental' semantics?2 - Axiomatization in the meaning sciences3 - David Lewis on context4 - From meaning to content5 - Reviving the parameter revolution in semantics6 - Changing notions of linguistic competence in the history of formal semantics7 - Lexical meaning, concepts, and the metasemantics of predicates8 - Interpretation and the interpreter9 - Expressing expectations10 - Fregean compositionality11 - Semantic typology and composition12 - Semantics as model-based science13 - Semantic possibility14 - Semantics as measurement

AUTORE

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.

ALTRE INFORMAZIONI

• Condizione: Nuovo
• ISBN: 9780198739548
• Dimensioni: 240 x 29.4 x 163 mm Ø 768 gr
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pagine Arabe: 422