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Semantics and Beyond

Piotr Stalmaszczyk
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Author : Piotr Stalmaszczyk
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2014-08-27
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783110362480

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Papers in the collection concentrate on different issues relevant for contemporary research within semantics, such as the linguistic and philosophical status of representations, reference theory and indexicals, situation semantics, formal semantics, normativity of meaning and speech acts, and different approaches to context and contextualism. The authors investigate the links between semantics and syntax, and between semantics, pragmatics, and speech act theory, and demonstrate that it is possible to integrate findings from different disciplines. Recent studies often advocate a ‘pragmatic turn’ in the study of meaning and context; however, the papers in the volume show that semantics and meaning remain in the center of research carried out within contemporary linguistics and philosophy, especially the philosophy of language. The volume includes contributions by: Brian Ball (St Anne’s College, Oxford), John Collins (University of East Anglia), Luis Fernández Moreno (Complutense University of Madrid), Chris Fox (University of Essex), Filip Kawczyński (University of Warsaw), Katarzyna Kijania-Placek (Jagiellonian University), Joanna Klimczyk (Polish Academy of Sciences), Paul Livingston (University of New Mexico), Mark Pinder (University of Bristol), Ernesto Perini-Santos (Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais), Tabea Reiner (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Munich), Stefan Riegelnik (University of Zurich), Arthur Sullivan (Memorial University of Newfoundland), Massimiliano Vignolo (University of Genoa), and Marián Zouhar (Slovak Academy of Sciences). The volume should be of interest to linguists, philosophers of language, and philosophers in general.

Slurs and Expressivity

Eleonora Orlando,Andrés Saab
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Author : Eleonora Orlando,Andrés Saab
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2021-04-20
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781793614377

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Slurs and Expressivity: Semantics and Beyond, edited by Eleonora Orlando and Andres Saab,focuses on the analysis of the expressive aspects of slur-words, namely, those words prima facie related to the conveyance of contemptuous or derogatory feelings for the members of a certain group of people identified in terms of their ethnicity, sexual orientation, religion, political ideology, and other personal qualities. In as far as they are used to express emotional attitudes, slurs are, thus, a kind of expressive words. This collection provides different hypotheses regarding the way in which the expressive import of slurs and other related expressive words is semantically encoded in the grammar and how their meaning impacts other aspects related to their use in different practices of linguistic communication. These linguistic practices are usually, but not always, related to segregation and discrimination of particular human groups. Therefore, any contribution to the theory of slur meaning is, directly or indirectly, also a contribution to a better understanding of those practices and to finding the best way to eradicate them.

Beyond Aspectual Semantics

Assistant Professor of English Linguistics Astrid de Wit,Astrid De Wit,Associate Professor of English Linguistics Frank Brisard,Frank Brisard,Carol Madden-Lombardi,Michael Meeuwis,Professor of African Linguistics Michael Meeuwis,Adeline Patard
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Author : Assistant Professor of English Linguistics Astrid de Wit,Astrid De Wit,Associate Professor of English Linguistics Frank Brisard,Frank Brisard,Carol Madden-Lombardi,Michael Meeuwis,Professor of African Linguistics Michael Meeuwis,Adeline Patard
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2024-02-28
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780192849311

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Beyond Aspectual Semantics by Assistant Professor of English Linguistics Astrid de Wit,Astrid De Wit,Associate Professor of English Linguistics Frank Brisard,Frank Brisard,Carol Madden-Lombardi,Michael Meeuwis,Professor of African Linguistics Michael Meeuwis,Adeline Patard Pdf

This volume examines the multifaceted nature of (grammatical) aspect. The chapters explore less typical contexts in which aspectual constructions are used, and draw on data from a range of languages, many of them understudied, including several African languages and the sign language Kata Kolok.

Social Semantics

Harry Halpin
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Author : Harry Halpin
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2012-08-01
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781461418856

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Social Semantics: The Search for Meaning on the Web provides a unique introduction to identity and reference theories of the World Wide Web, through the academic lens of philosophy of language and data-driven statistical models. The Semantic Web is a natural evolution of the Web, and this book covers the URL-based Web architecture and Semantic Web in detail. It has a robust empirical side which has an impact on industry. Social Semantics: The Search for Meaning on the Web discusses how the largest problem facing the Semantic Web is the problem of identity and reference, and how these are the results of a larger general theory of meaning. This book hypothesizes that statistical semantics can solve these problems, illustrated by case studies ranging from a pioneering study of tagging systems to using the Semantic Web to boost the results of commercial search engines. Social Semantics: The Search for Meaning on the Web targets practitioners working in the related fields of the semantic web, search engines, information retrieval, philosophers of language and more. Advanced-level students and researchers focusing on computer science will also find this book valuable as a secondary text or reference book.

Beyond Semantics and Pragmatics

Gerhard Preyer
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Author : Gerhard Preyer
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2018-08-09
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780192509116

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The study of meaning in language embraces a diverse range of problems and methods. Philosophers think through the relationship between language and the world; linguists document speakers' knowledge of meaning; psychologists investigate the mechanisms of understanding and production. Up through the early 2000s, these investigations were generally compartmentalized: indeed, researchers often regarded both the subject-matter and the methods of other disciplines with skepticism. Since then, however, there has been a sea change in the field, enabling researchers increasingly to synthesize the perspectives of philosophy, linguistics and psychology and to energize all the fields with rich new intellectual perspectives that facilitate meaningful interchange. The time is right for a broader exploration and reflection on the status and problems of semantics as an interdisciplinary enterprise, in light of a decade of challenging and successful research in this area. Taking as its starting-point Lepore and Stone's 2014 book Imagination and Convention, this volume aims to reconcile different methodological perspectives while refocusing semanticists on new problems where integrative work will find the broadest and most receptive audience.

Beyond Rigidity

Scott Soames
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Author : Scott Soames
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Electronic books
ISBN : 9780195145281

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Soames introduces a new conception of the relationship between linguistic meaning and assertions made by utterances. He gives meanings of proper names and natural-kind predicates and explains their use in attitude ascriptions.

Beyond Semantics and Pragmatics

Gerhard Preyer
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Author : Gerhard Preyer
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2018-08-16
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780192565969

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Beyond Semantics and Pragmatics by Gerhard Preyer Pdf

The study of meaning in language embraces a diverse range of problems and methods. Philosophers think through the relationship between language and the world; linguists document speakers' knowledge of meaning; psychologists investigate the mechanisms of understanding and production. Up through the early 2000s, these investigations were generally compartmentalized: indeed, researchers often regarded both the subject-matter and the methods of other disciplines with skepticism. Since then, however, there has been a sea change in the field, enabling researchers increasingly to synthesize the perspectives of philosophy, linguistics and psychology and to energize all the fields with rich new intellectual perspectives that facilitate meaningful interchange. The time is right for a broader exploration and reflection on the status and problems of semantics as an interdisciplinary enterprise, in light of a decade of challenging and successful research in this area. Taking as its starting-point Lepore and Stone's 2014 book Imagination and Convention, this volume aims to reconcile different methodological perspectives while refocusing semanticists on new problems where integrative work will find the broadest and most receptive audience.

Beyond Meaning

Elly Ifantidou,Louis de Saussure,Tim Wharton
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Author : Elly Ifantidou,Louis de Saussure,Tim Wharton
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2021-11-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027259592

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Beyond Meaning by Elly Ifantidou,Louis de Saussure,Tim Wharton Pdf

Despite the fact that they are often crucial to our understanding, the vague, ineffable elements of language use and communication have received much less attention from linguists than the more concrete, effable ones. This has left a range of important questions unanswered. How might we account for the communication of non-propositional phenomena such as moods, emotions and impressions? What type of cognitive response do these phenomena trigger, if not conceptual or propositional? Do creative metaphors and unknown words in second languages and other ‘pointers’ to ‘conceptual regions’ communicate concepts learned from language alone? How might the descriptive ineffability of interjections, free indirect speech etc. be accommodated within a theory of communication? What of those working on the aesthetics of artworks, music and literature? What can evolution tell us about ineffability? The papers in this volume address these fascinating questions head-on. They represent a range of different attempts to answer them and, in so doing, allow us to pose exciting new questions. The aim, to bring the ineffable firmly within the grasp of theoretical pragmatics.

Perspectives on Semantics, Pragmatics, and Discourse

István Kenesei,Robert M. Harnish
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Author : István Kenesei,Robert M. Harnish
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2001-07-09
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027298096

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Perspectives on Semantics, Pragmatics, and Discourse by István Kenesei,Robert M. Harnish Pdf

Professor Ferenc Kiefer of the Linguistics Institute of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences was instrumental in bringing early transformational grammar to Europe. His extensive work contributes substantially to making a connection between the grammatical theory and other areas of linguistics. The 17 essays in this book celebrate his career by continuing to explore inter-area research in linguistics: pragmatics in grammar (de Groot, van Riemsdijk, Dressler & Barbaresi, Comrie), semantic compositionality and pragmatics (Wunderlich, Partee, Borschev, Szabo, Bach), logical structures and universals in semantics and pragmatics (van der Auwera, Bultinck, Burton-Roberts, Harnish, Wierzbicka) dialogue and thematic structure (Jonasson, Doherty, Hajicova, Panevova, Sgall, Allwood, Fraser).

Possessives and Beyond

Yury a. Lander
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Author : Yury a. Lander
Publisher : Booksurge Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2005-03
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1419601997

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The International Workshop on the Semantics/Syntax of Possessive Constructions was held at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst on May 6-8, 2002. This volume collects 22 of the papers presented at the workshop.

Beyond Expressives: Explorations in Use-Conditional Meaning

Daniel Gutzmann,Hans-Martin Gärtner
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Author : Daniel Gutzmann,Hans-Martin Gärtner
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2013-07-18
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789004183988

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Beyond Expressives: Explorations in Use-Conditional Meaning by Daniel Gutzmann,Hans-Martin Gärtner Pdf

Beyond Expressives: Explorations in Use-Conditional Meaning offers empirical and theoretical studies of expressions whose meaning falls outside the standard realm of truth-conditional semantics. Going beyond examples of expressives, the contributions acount for the semantics and pragmatics various of use-conditional phenomena.

Beyond Rigidity

Scott Soames
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Author : Scott Soames
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780195145298

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Soames introduces a new conception of the relationship between linguistic meaning and assertions made by utterances. He gives meanings of proper names and natural-kind predicates and explains their use in attitude ascriptions.

Continuity in Linguistic Semantics

Catherine Fuchs,Bernard Victorri
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Author : Catherine Fuchs,Bernard Victorri
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1994-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027231284

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Continuity in Linguistic Semantics by Catherine Fuchs,Bernard Victorri Pdf

Until recently, most linguistic theories as well as theories of cognition have avoided use of the notion of continuity. At the moment, however, several linguistic trends, sharing a preoccupation with semantico-cognitive problems (e.g. cognitive grammars, 'psychomechanics', 'enunciative theories'), are trying to go beyond the constraints imposed by discrete approaches. At the same time, mathematical (e.g. differential geometry and dynamical systems) and computer science tools (e.g. connectionism) have been proposed that can be used for modelling of continuous linguistic phenomena. In this volume, linguists, philosophers, mathematicians and computer scientists discuss which semantic phenomena (linked to the lexicon, to grammatical theories or to syntactic structures) call for continuous models and which formalisation tools can contribute to the development of such models. The first part of the book is devoted to linguistic issues, the second part deals with modelling issues. Many important questions are raised in the discussion, for instance: Is continuity just a convenient representation of gradual yet discrete facts, or is it an intrinsic characteristic of semantic phenomena? How can the introduction of continuity be reconciled with a methodology based on the falsifiability of theories? What is the link between continuity and Gestalt theory? Can linguistic continuity be accounted for by mathematical models? What about statistical models? How can continuity be implemented on a digital and therefore discrete machine?

Cognitive Semantics

Jens S. Allwood,Peter Gärdenfors
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Author : Jens S. Allwood,Peter Gärdenfors
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027250681

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Cognitive Semantics by Jens S. Allwood,Peter Gärdenfors Pdf

Toward the end of the 20th century, there is both a dissatisfaction with existing formal semantic theories and a wish to preserve insights from other semantic traditions. Cognitive semantics, the latest of the major trends which have dominated the century, attempts to do this by focusing on meaning as a cognitive phenomenon. This book provides different perspectives on meaning as a cognitive phenomenon. Jens Allwood presents an approach where meaning is analyzed in terms of context sensitive cognitive operations. Peter Gärdenfors examines the relationship between cognitive semantics and standard formal extensional and intensional semantics. Peter Harder discusses the relation between functionalism and cognitive semantics. Sören Sjöström and +ke Viberg extend a cognitive semantic approach to new empirical domains like vision and physical contact. Elisabeth Engberg Pedersen extends the use of cognitive semantics even further in order to analyze deaf sign language and, finally, Kenneth Holmqvist and Jordan Zlatev discuss two different possibilities of implementing a cognitive semantic approach using computer programs. The variety of perspectives on cognitive semantics make this book suitable as course material.

Semantics

James R. Hurford,Brendan Heasley
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Author : James R. Hurford,Brendan Heasley
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1983-04-28
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0521289491

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Introduces the major elements of semantics in a simple, step-by-step fashion. Sections of explanation and examples are followed by practice exercises with answers and comment provided.