Screen LibrarySemantics and beyond : philosophical and linguistic inquiries /
This collection brings together contributions by linguists, philosophers, and logicians, offering interdisciplinary approaches to current research on semantics and meaning. Individual chapters concentrate on different issues and demonstrate that semantics and meaning have remained in the center of r...
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De Gruyter,
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| Publisher Address: | Berlin/Boston : |
| Publication Dates: | [2014] |
| Literature type: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Philosophische analyse / philosophical analysis;
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This collection brings together contributions by linguists, philosophers, and logicians, offering interdisciplinary approaches to current research on semantics and meaning. Individual chapters concentrate on different issues and demonstrate that semantics and meaning have remained in the center of research carried out within contemporary linguistics and philosophy, especially the philosophy of language. |
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1 online resource (316 pages) : illustrations. Also available in print edition. |
| ISBN: | 9783110362480 |
| Index Number: | B840 |
| CLC: | H030 |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Semantics and Beyond: Philosophical and Linguistic Inquiries. Preface / On the Normativity of Speech Acts / Representations without Representa: Content and Illusion in Linguistic Theory / Kripke, Putnam, and the Description Theory / The Meaning of Formal Semantics / Frege s Puzzle and the Direct Reference Theory / Situation Semantics, Time, and Descriptive Indexicals / The Prescription Argument Against the Normativity of Meaning / The Sense of Finitude and the Finitude of Sense / Green Leaves Again! An Assessment of Kennedy and McNally s Solution to Travis Challenge / Borg s Minimalism and the Problem of Paradox / Lexical vs. Grammatical Meaning Revisited / Sentence, Proposition, and Context. On the Idea of an Intermediate Level / On the Semantic Relevance of Romanovs / What Incompleteness Arguments Tell Us about Semantics and Linguistic Competence / On Underdetermination of Contextualism / Index. |