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The science of meaning : essays on the metatheory of natural language semantics /

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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 curre...

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Other Authors: Ball, Derek (Lecturer in philosophy), Rabern, Brian (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, 2018.
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
Semantics.
Meaning (Psychology)
Semantics
Sémantique.
Signification (Psychologie)
semantics.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > General.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • 1. What is
  • or, for that Matter, isn't
  • 'Experimental' Semantics? / Pauline Jacobson
  • 2. Axiomatization in the Meaning Sciences / Thomas F. Icard
  • 3. David Lewis on Context / Robert Stalnaker
  • 4. From Meaning to Content: Issues in Meta-Semantics / Francois Recanati
  • 5. Reviving the Parameter Revolution in Semantics / Josh Dever
  • 6. Changing Notions of Linguistic Competence in the History of Formal Semantics / Barbara H. Partee
  • 7. Lexical Meaning, Concepts, and the Metasemantics of Predicates / Michael Glanzberg
  • 8. Interpretation and the Interpreter: On the Role of the Interpreter in Davidsonian Foundational Semantics / Kathrin Gluer
  • 9. Expressing Expectations / Frank Veltman
  • 10. Fregean Compositionality / Thomas Ede Zimmermann
  • 11. Semantic Typology and Composition / Paul M. Pietroski
  • 12. Semantics as Model-Based Science / Seth Yalcin
  • 13. Semantic Possibility / Wolfgang Schwarz
  • 14. Semantics as Measurement / Derek Ball.