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Linguistic Meaning and Non-Truth-Conditionality

Xosé Rosales Sequeiros (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

VI, 258 Seiten

2012
Peter Lang Group Ag, International Academic Publishers (Verlag)
978-3-0343-0705-5 (ISBN)

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This series provides an outlet for academic monographs which offer a recent and original contribution to linguistics and which are within the descriptive tradition. While the monographs demonstrate their debt to contemporary linguistic thought, the series does not impose limitations in terms of methodology or genre, and does not support a particular linguistic school. Rather the series welcomes new and innovative research that contributes to furthering the understanding of the description of language.

This book offers a new perspective on current semantic theory by analysing key aspects of linguistic meaning and non-truth-conditional semantics. It applies non-truth-conditional semantics to various areas of language and critically considers earlier approaches to the study of semantic meaning, such as truth-conditional semantics, Speech Act theory and Gricean conventional implicatures. The author argues that those earlier approaches to linguistic semantics do not stand up to close scrutiny and are subject to a number of counterexamples, indicating that they are insufficient for a comprehensive and unified account of linguistic semantics.
An alternative framework is then presented based on recent developments in the field, demonstrating that it is possible to provide a unified account of linguistic semantics by making two fundamental distinctions between (a) conceptual and procedural meaning and (b) explicit and implicit communication. These two distinctions, combined with the various levels of representation available in linguistic communication, allow researchers to capture the variety of linguistic meaning encountered in natural language. The study includes a discussion of a number of areas within linguistic semantics, including sentence adverbials, parentheticals, discourse/pragmatic connectives, discourse particles, interjections and mood indicators.

Xosé Rosales Sequeiros is Associate Professor of Linguistics at Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University. Previously, he taught widely in the United Kingdom, including at the Universities of Leicester, Greenwich and Portsmouth. His research interests include semantics, pragmatics and cognition.

Contents: Linguistic semantics and non-truth-conditional meaning - Traditional approaches to non-truth-conditional Meaning - Speech-acts, truth-conditional and non-truth-conditional meaning - New developments in linguistic semantics - Applications of semantic theory to non-truth-conditional meaning - Linguistic semantics and mood.

«This book is a valuable resource and highly recommended to researchers and novices in the fields of cognitive linguistics, cognitive science, philosophy of language, philosophy of the mind, pragmatics and discourse analysis.» (Fan Zhen-qiang, The Linguist List 10/2012)

Erscheint lt. Verlag	22.2.2012
Reihe/Serie	Contemporary Studies in Descriptive Linguistics ; 32
Mitarbeit	Herausgeber (Serie): Karl Bernhardt, Graeme Davis
Verlagsort	Bern
Sprache	englisch
Maße	150 x 225 mm
Gewicht	380 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Sprachphilosophie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Sprachwissenschaft
Schlagworte	Bernhardt • conditionality • Davis • Graeme • Karl • Linguistic • linguistic semantics • Linguistic semantics and non-truth-conditional mea • Linguistic semantics and non-truth-conditional meaning • Meaning • Rosales • Sequeiros • Speech-acts • Truth • Xosé
ISBN-10	3-0343-0705-5 / 3034307055
ISBN-13	978-3-0343-0705-5 / 9783034307055
Zustand	Neuware