The Science of Meaning

Essays on the Metatheory of Natural Language Semantics

Buch | Softcover

432 Seiten

2020
Oxford University Press (Verlag)
978-0-19-886573-5 (ISBN)

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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.

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.

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.

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

Erscheinungsdatum	25.09.2020
Verlagsort	Oxford
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 234 mm
Gewicht	642 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Sprachphilosophie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Allgemeine Psychologie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Verhaltenstherapie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Sprachwissenschaft
ISBN-10	0-19-886573-2 / 0198865732
ISBN-13	978-0-19-886573-5 / 9780198865735
Zustand	Neuware