Essays in Semantics and Pragmatics - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Essays in Semantics and Pragmatics write by Masayoshi Shibatani. This book was released on 1996-01-01. Essays in Semantics and Pragmatics available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This volume reflects the influence of Chuck Fillmore’s ground-breaking work in the fields of semantics and pragmatics. The papers in the volume pay tribute to his pioneering research into the deepest realms of the nature of ‘meaning’.
Truth, Force, and Knowledge in Language
Truth, Force, and Knowledge in Language - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Truth, Force, and Knowledge in Language write by Savas L. Tsohatzidis. This book was released on 2020-08-24. Truth, Force, and Knowledge in Language available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book collects twenty-five of the author's essays, each of which addresses a descriptive or a foundational issue that arises at the interface between linguistic semantics and pragmatics, on the one hand, and the philosophy of language, on the other. Arranged into three interconnected parts (I. Matters of Meaning and Truth; II. Matters of Meaning and Force; III. Knowledge Matters), the essays suggest that some key topics in the above-mentioned fields have often been approached in ways that considerably underestimate their empirical or conceptual complexity, and attempt to delineate perspectives from which, and conditions under which, an improved understanding of those topics could be sought. The book will be of interest to linguists working in semantics and pragmatics, and to philosophers working in the philosophy of language and in epistemology.
Context-Sensitivity and Semantic Minimalism
Context-Sensitivity and Semantic Minimalism - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Context-Sensitivity and Semantic Minimalism write by Gerhard Preyer. This book was released on 2007-10-25. Context-Sensitivity and Semantic Minimalism available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Fifteen specially written papers examine the ways in which the content of what we say is dependent on the context in which we say it. At the centre of the current debate on this subject is Cappelen and Lepore's claim that context-sensitivity in language is best captured by a combination of semantic minimalism and speech act pluralism. Using this theory as their starting point, the contributors to this volume develop a variety of different views about the role of context in communication, and reveal its wide-ranging implications for all issues in the philosophy of language and linguistics.
Mind, Code and Context
Mind, Code and Context - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Mind, Code and Context write by T. Givon. This book was released on 2014-01-21. Mind, Code and Context available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Scholars concerned with the phenomenon of mind have searched through history for a principled yet non-reductionist approach to the study of knowledge, communication, and behavior. Pragmatics has been a recurrent theme in Western epistemology, tracing itself back from pre-Socratic dialectics and Aristotle's bio- functionalism, all the way to Wittgenstein's content-dependent semantics. This book's treatment of pragmatics as an analytic method focuses on the central role of context in determining the perception, organization, and communication of experience. As a bioadaptive strategy, pragmatics straddles the middle ground between absolute categories and the non-discrete gradation of experience, reflecting closely the organism's own evolutionary compromises. In parallel, pragmatic reasoning can be shown to play a pivotal role in the process of empirical science, through the selection of relevant facts, the abduction of likely hypotheses, and the construction of non-trivial explanations. In this volume, Professor Givon offers pragmatics as both an analytic method and a strategic intellectual framework. He points out its relevance to our understanding of traditional problems in philosophy, anthropology, linguistics, cognitive psychology, neuro-biology, and evolution. Finally, the application of pragmatics to the study of the mind and behavior constitutes an implicit challenge to the current tenets of artificial intelligence.
Context-Sensitivity and Semantic Minimalism
Context-Sensitivity and Semantic Minimalism - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Context-Sensitivity and Semantic Minimalism write by Gerhard Preyer. This book was released on 2007-10-25. Context-Sensitivity and Semantic Minimalism available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "This book represents a continuation of the research project in philosophy of language and semantics represented in the journal "Protosociology" at the J. W. Goethe-University, Frankfurt am Main." - editors' preface.
