The Science of Meaning
Essays on the Metatheory of Natural Language Semantics
Published on 30. July 2020
Book
Paperback/Softback
432 pages
978-0-19-886573-5 (ISBN)
Description
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.
Reviews / Votes
Ball and Rabern have collected a set of prestigious chapters that well represent the current state of reflections on the nature, structure, and foundations of theories in mainstream FS. The volume will be of great interest to semanticists and contains a fair number of must-read essays (e.g., by Partee, Recanati, Yalcin) that could easily also be appreciated by linguists, cognitive scientists, and philosophers of language. * Giosue Baggio, Journal of Logic, Language and Information *More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
Thickness: 23 mm
Weight
638 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-19-886573-5 (9780198865735)
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Persons
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.
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.
Content
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: Francois 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 Glueer: Interpretation and the interpreter
9: Ines 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
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: Francois 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 Glueer: Interpretation and the interpreter
9: Ines 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