The Science of Meaning
Essays on the Metatheory of Natural Language Semantics
1st Edition
Published on 11. July 2018
272 pages
978-0-19-105996-4 (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.
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Derek Ball | Brian Rabern
The Science of Meaning
Essays on the Metatheory of Natural Language Semantics
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08/2018
Oxford University Press
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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.
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: François 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 Glüer: Interpretation and the interpreter
- 9: Inés 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
