Semantics Versus 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 Semantics Versus Pragmatics write by Zoltan Gendler Szabo. This book was released on 2005-01-06. Semantics Versus Pragmatics available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This is a collection of papers by leading scholars in the philosophy of language and theoretical linguistics on how semantics and pragmatics embed into a larger theory of interpretation and also on the disputed territories between these disciplines.
Pragmatics and Semantics
Pragmatics and Semantics - 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 Pragmatics and Semantics write by Carol A. Kates. This book was released on 2020-02-15. Pragmatics and Semantics available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. What is the nature of communicative competence? Carol Kates addresses this crucial linguistic question, examining and finally rejecting the rationalistic theory proposed by Noam Chomsky and elaborated by Jerrold J. Katz, among others. She sets forth three reasons why the rationalistic model shoudl be rejected: (1) it has not been supported by empirical tests; (2) it cannot accommodate the pragmatic relation between speaker and sign; and (3) the theory of universal grammar carries with it unacceptable metaphysical implications unless it is interpreted in light of empiricism. Kates proposes an empiricist model in place of the rationalistic theory—a model that, in her view, is more consistent with recent findings in linguistics and psycholinguistics. In attempting to clarify the nature of utterance meaning, Kates develops theoretical perspectives on phenomenological empiricism and produces an account of reference and intentionality directly relevant to empiricaly based theories of speaking and understanding. Among the major topics addressed in the book are transformational-generative and universal grammer, cognitive theories of language acquisition, pragmatic structure, predication and topic-comment structure, and empiricism and the philosophical problem of universals. An innovative and probing work, Pragmatics and Semantics will be welcomed by philosophers, linguists, and psycholinguists.
Semantics and Pragmatics: Drawing a Line
Semantics and Pragmatics: Drawing a Line - 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 Semantics and Pragmatics: Drawing a Line write by Ilse Depraetere. This book was released on 2017-03-16. Semantics and Pragmatics: Drawing a Line available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book explores new territory at the interface between semantics and pragmatics, reassessing a number of linguistic phenomena in the light of recent advances in pragmatic theory. It presents stimulating insights by experts in linguistics and philosophy, including Kent Bach, Philippe de Brabanter, Max Kölbel and François Recanati. The authors begin by reassessing the definition of four theoretical concepts: saturation, free pragmatic enrichment, completion and expansion. They go on to confront (sub)disciplines that have addressed similar issues but that have not necessarily been in close contact, and then turn to questions related to reported speech, modality, indirect requests and prosody. Chapters investigate lexical pragmatics and (cognitive) lexical semantics and other interactions involving experimental pragmatics, construction grammar, clinical linguistics, and the distinction between mental and linguistic content. The authors bridge the gap between different disciplines, subdisciplines and methodologies, supporting cross-fertilization of ideas and indicating the empirical studies that are needed to test current theoretical concepts and push the theory further. Readers will find overviews of the ways in which concepts are defined, empirical data with which they are illustrated and explorations of the theoretical frameworks in which concepts are couched. This exciting exchange of ideas has its origins in the editors’ workshop series on the theme ‘The semantics/pragmatics interface: linguistic, logical and philosophical perspectives’, held at the University of Lille 3 in 2012-13. Scholars of linguistics, logic and philosophy and those interested in the research benefits of crossing disciplines will find this work both accessible and thought-provoking, especially those with an interest in pragmatic theory or semantics.
The Semantics/pragmatics Distinction
The Semantics/pragmatics Distinction - 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 The Semantics/pragmatics Distinction write by Claudia Bianchi. This book was released on 2004. The Semantics/pragmatics Distinction available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Publisher Description
Explorations in Semantics and Pragmatics
Explorations 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 Explorations in Semantics and Pragmatics write by Geoffrey N. Leech. This book was released on 1980. Explorations in Semantics and Pragmatics available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The aim of this book is to show the way forward to a coherent view of language in which the achievement of the formalist paradigm is strengthened to the extent that its claims are weakened. A formal theory such as generative grammar is a special theory which is to be subsumed in a general theory of linguistic communication that also includes pragmatics. The tension between the psycho-formalist and the socio-functional views could be resolved in a synthesis whereby both the psychological and social natures of language are fully acknowledged. Semantics and pragmatics, representing these two natures in the study of meaning, have distinct goals, which can be defined more clearly and pursued more effectively to the extent that both their distinctness and their interdependence are recognized.
