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Word Meaning and Belief - S.G. Pulman

Word Meaning and Belief

(Autor)

Buch | Softcover
182 Seiten
2018
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-138-69052-3 (ISBN)
CHF 43,60 inkl. MwSt
First published in 1983, the aim of this book is to diagnose linguists’ failure to advance satisfactory theories of lexical meaning, then to propose the requirements that such a theory should meet and, drawing on work in philosophy and psychology, to take the first steps towards satisfying these requirements. It begins by discussing the work of Quine on the indeterminacy of translation and it is shown that attempts by linguists to answer Quine’s arguments by proposing universal ‘semantic primitives’ or their equivalents is unsatisfactory. The relation between the theory of word meaning and the theory of categorisation is explored, and an alternative to Rosch’s ‘family resemblance’ account of the ‘prototype’ effect in both nouns and verbs is provided. The author argues that identification of certain implicit categories like ‘action’ and ‘event’ can be related to principles of individuation, and builds on the work of Kripke and Putnam on proper names and natural kind terms. This book will be of interest to students of linguistics and the philosophy of language.

S.G. Pulman

Preface; 1. The Possibility of a Theory of Word Meaning 2. Against Semantic Primitives 3. Naïve Metaphysics 4. Theories of Categorisation 5. Verbs, Prototypes and Family Resemblances 6. Semantic Categories; Bibliography; Index

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie Routledge Library Editions: Semantics and Semiology
Verlagsort London
Sprache englisch
Maße 156 x 234 mm
Gewicht 453 g
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Sprachphilosophie
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Anglistik / Amerikanistik
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaft
ISBN-10 1-138-69052-X / 113869052X
ISBN-13 978-1-138-69052-3 / 9781138690523
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