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Author : John Lyons
Publisher : Fontana Press
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : UOM:39015010385972
Author : John Lyons
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Language and languages
ISBN : OCLC:1313747434
Author : Stefano Predelli
Publisher : Clarendon Press
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2005-06-09
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780191535932
Stefano Predelli comes to the defence of the traditional 'formal' approach to natural-language semantics, arguing that it has been misrepresented not only by its critics, but also by its foremost defenders. In Contexts he offers a fundamental reappraisal, with particular attention to the treatment of indexicality and other forms of contextual dependence which have been the focus of much recent controversy. Predelli shows how his metasemantic approach deals with a variety of important semantic and philosophical puzzles. He analyses the relationship between indexicality and logical validity, discussing well-known problem cases, and demonstrating the limits of token-reflexive systems. He investigates the relationships between truth-conditions and assignments of truth-values at particular points of evaluation, and shows that so-called contextualist worries do not undermine the traditional semantic approach. Finally, he shows that semantic befuddlement about the interpretation of attitude reports is based on an inadequate understanding of the scope of natural language semantics. Contexts will be of great interest to all philosophers of language, and to many linguists.
Author : Nicholas Asher
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2011-03-17
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781139501316
This is a book about the meanings of words and how they can combine to form larger meaningful units, as well as how they can fail to combine when the amalgamation of a predicate and argument would produce what the philosopher Gilbert Ryle called a 'category mistake'. It argues for a theory in which words get assigned both an intension and a type. The book develops a rich system of types and investigates its philosophical and formal implications, for example the abandonment of the classic Church analysis of types that has been used by linguists since Montague. The author integrates fascinating and puzzling observations about lexical meaning into a compositional semantic framework. Adjustments in types are a feature of the compositional process and account for various phenomena including coercion and copredication. This book will be of interest to semanticists, philosophers, logicians and computer scientists alike.
Author : Kirsten Malmkjær,John Williams
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1998-10-08
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 0521633559
The papers in this volume represent varied views on the role of context in language learning.
Author : Hans Kamp,Barbara Partee
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 566 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2021-10-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789004487222
This collection of papers addresses context-dependence and methods for dealing with it. The book also records comments to the papers and the authors' replies to the comments. In this way, the contributions themselves are contextually dependent. It represents an inquiry into the activities on the semantics side of the pragmatics boundary.
Author : Rita Finkbeiner,Jörg Meibauer,Petra B. Schumacher
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027255792
Context is a core notion of linguistic theory. However, while there are numerous attempts at explaining single aspects of the notion of context, these attempts are rather diverse and do not easily converge to a unified theory of context. The present multi-faceted collection of papers reconsiders the notion of context and its challenges for linguistics from different theoretical and empirical angles. Part I offers insights into a wide range of current approaches to context, including theoretical pragmatics, neurolinguistics, clinical pragmatics, interactional linguistics, and psycholinguistics. Part II presents new empirical findings on the role of context from case studies on idioms, unarticulated constituents, argument linking, and numerically-quantified expressions. Bringing together different theoretical frameworks, the volume provides thought-provoking discussions of how the notion of context can be understood, modeled, and implemented in linguistics. It is essential for researchers interested in theoretical and applied linguistics, the semantics/pragmatics interface, and experimental pragmatics.
Author : Ruqaiya Hasan,Sonia S. Hasan,Jonathan J. Webster
Publisher : Equinox
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2012-11-30
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1904768393
The concept "context of situation" introduced by Malinowski some eighty years ago has now become an essential element of the vocabulary of any linguistic theory whose aim is to reveal the nature of language. With the abandonment of the spurious distinction between competence and performance, the process of language, i.e., language use, has claimed its rightful place in the study of language. The chapters of this book focus on the relations of context and text, conceptualising the latter as language operative in some recognizable social context. It is argued that context is not simply a backdrop for the occurrence of words; rather, it is an active element which on the one hand plays a crucial role in the progression of human discourse and on the other enters into and shapes the very nature of language as process and as system, furnishing the foundation for functionality in language. Acting as the interface between language and society, context analysis reveals the power of language for creating, maintaining and changing human relationships.
Author : Deborah Schiffrin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : UOM:39015009109326
Author : Sarah-Jane Conrad,Klaus Petrus
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2017-10-23
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781501504235
What methodological impact does Contextualism have on the philosophy of language? This collection sets out to provide some answers. The authors in this volume question three ultimately connected assumptions of the philosophy of language. The first assumption relates to the predominant status of referential semantics and its power to explain truth-conditional meaning. This assumption has come under attack by the context thesis and a number of papers pursue the question of whether this is justified. The second assumption gives priority to assertive sentences when considering language use. The context thesis changes our understanding of language use altogether; possible implications from this methodological shift are addressed in this volume. According to the third assumption, philosophical analysis amounts to nothing more than conceptual analysis. The context thesis risks undermining this project. Whether conceptual analysis can still be defended as a methodological tool is discussed in this volume.
Author : Nick Riemer
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 477 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2010-03-25
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780521851923
An introduction to the study of meaning in language for undergraduate students.
Author : Joan Cutting
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2014-12-11
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780748699285
This book covers the relevance of theories on language analysis to TESOL, showing students how to understand and evaluate TESOL methodology, curriculum, and materials in terms of theories including conversation structure, ideology and power.
Author : Lynda Pritchard Newcombe
Publisher : Multilingual Matters
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781853599941
The focus in this book is on learners experiences using Welsh outside class but the issues discussed have implications for a wide range of other situations where the population is bilingual or multilingual and interaction takes place in a language of wider communication.
Author : Jeffrey Gil,Sky Marsen
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2022-06-07
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781000593877
This accessible and engaging textbook offers a practical approach to understanding the complexity of language by exploring language use and language learning in a wide variety of contexts. Bringing together leading specialists who are active researchers in the field of linguistics, this book introduces readers to major fields of language study by focusing on social, cultural and historical factors that show the dynamic nature of language. Topics explored include first and second language acquisition, grammar, meaning-making and pragmatics, language use and technology, language variation, and English as a global language. This book surveys major principles and shows how to apply them through structured discussion topics and activities to facilitate a greater understanding and appreciation of language. This is essential reading for undergraduate students taking courses in linguistics and language use, and a valuable resource for students of communication studies, media studies, sociology and anthropology.
Author : Jonathan J. Webster
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2008-04-21
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781441156440
Meaning in Context collects some of the biggest names in systemic functional linguistics in one volume, and shows how this theory can be applied to language studies 'intelligently', in order to arrive at a better understanding of how meaning is constructed in language. The chapters use systemic functional theory to examine a range of issues including corpus linguistics, multimodality, language technology, world Englishes and language evolution. This forward-thinking volume will be of interest to researchers in applied linguistics and systemic functional linguistics.
