Current Advances in Semantic Theory

1. Preface; 2. Introduction; 3. PART 1: Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Meaning; 4. Traces of Meaning and Reference: Phenomenological and Hermeneutical Explorations (by Schrag, Calvin O.); 5. Meaning Prior to the Separation of the Five Senses (by Gendlin, Eugene T.); 6. Model-Making Mind: Model of Meaning (by Fischer, Roland); 7. Perceptual Meaning and the Holoworld (by Globus, Gordon G.); 8. Consciousness and the Cognitive Psychology of Meaning (by Hunt, Harry T.); 9. The Body of Discourse (by Solie, Pierre); 10. Models of Interpretation (by Dascal, Marcelo); 11. Word Meaning, Imagery and Action (by Engelkamp, Johannes); 12. Meaning-Constellating Processes in Experientially Defined Human Events (by Privette, Gayle); 13. Movement Metaphors: Linking Theory and Therapeutic Practice (by Dascal, Varda); 14. Relationship between Meaning and Representation: An Experimental Approach (by Patel, Mukesh J.); 15. The Semantics of Emotion Words: A Comparison of Three Taxonomies (by Storm, Christine); 16. Meaning and Semantic Power: Glimpses of the Philosophy of Sakti-Vada (by Gradinarov, Plamen); 17. Meaning, Perspective, and the Social Construction of Reality (by Eidlin, Fred); 18. Philosophy of Language without Meaning, and without... Language (by Milkov, Nikolay); 19. PART II: Toward Broadening the Scope of Linguistic Semantics; 20. Linguistic Relativity and Semantic Research (by Dimitrova, Stefana); 21. The Pragmatics of Semeiosis (by Mey, Jacob L.); 22. Integrational Semantics: An Integrative View of Linguistic Meaning (by Lieb, Hans-Heinrich); 23. Sentence Type, Sentence Mood and Illocutionary Type (by Kiefer, Ferenc); 24. Some Considerations on the Explicitness and Completeness of Semantic Descriptions (by Hundsnurscher, Franz); 25. Linguistic Meaning and Semantic Interpretation (by Sgall, Petr); 26. The Problem of Literal Meaning (by Weigand, Edda); 27. An Outline of Aspectuality in English within a Compromise Linguistic Model (by Danchev, Andrei); 28. Semantic 'Oppositions': (Animacy) (by Pencheva, Maya); 29. Semantic Similarity and Opposition: Methods of Establishment and Measurement (by Todorova, Elena); 30. Semantic Elements in Machine Translation (by Nagao, Makoto); 31. Situation Semantics Analysis of Some Nominals in Bulgarian (by Pavlov, Radoslav); 32. On Conventions and Contracts (by Stockinger, Peter); 33. Tense Meaning and Pragmatics (by Stoevsky, Andrei); 34. Ordinary Misunderstanding (by Weizman, Elda); 35. Theses for an Ethnopragmatics (by Staynov, Petko); 36. Lexical Meaning from Synchronic and Diachronic Points of View (by Duridanov, Ivan); 37. Are There, from a Semantic Point of View, Proper Names Based on Mass-Names? (by Harweg, Roland); 38. Panini's View of Meaning and its Western Counterpart (by Bronkhorst, Johannes); 39. Buddhist Tantra and Lexical Meaning (by Wayman, Alex); 40. In Praise of Wholeness (by Stamenov, Maxim I.); 41. Types of Semantic Relations between Noun Groups in Binominative Sentences (by Ilieva, Kornelia); 42. Towards an Updated Model of the Linguistic Sign (by Konstantinov, Julian); 43. Meaning and Explicative Interpretation as Research Objects (by Petofi, Janos Sander); 44. Natural Text Processing and Text Meaning (by Longacre, Robert E.); 45. Is Interpretation an Illusion (by Van de Velde, Roger); 46. Subject Index