Semiotics And Pragmatics

Author : Herman Parret
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1983-01-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789027280329

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Semiotics and Pragmatics by Herman Parret Pdf

Looking at the ‘semiotic landscape’ – the panorama of constituted semiotics – two traditions seem to have developed separately and without interpenetration. Anglo-Saxon semioticians consider the Peircean framework to provide the adequate conceptual apparatus, whereas so-called ‘Continental’ semioticians refer to the sign theory in Saussure and in its interpretation by Hjelmslev (for instance, the École sémiotique de Paris). Evaluating each other’s projects, methods, and results could lead to a balanced view. The purpose of this monograph is to get the best out of the adequate insights from both sides, and to make suggestions how the semioticians from the Peircean or Saussuro-Hjelmslevian school can be removed from their isolationist positions. A comparison and homologation of these two orientations will be carried out from the angle of the impact of pragmaticism on both semiotic orientations. How intentionality, action, conventionality, interlocution are integrated in both orientations will be given particular emphasis.

Author : Albert Sweet
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1990-09-24
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780271073514

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The Pragmatics and Semiotics of Standard Languages by Albert Sweet Pdf

Sweet describes the pragmatic foundations of standard logic and applies these foundations to the task of developing a theory of intended models as an extension of standard model theory in which the relevant "intending" is represented pragmatically. Methods of formal logic are used to investigate the structure of the relation between language and the world. The truism which holds that this relation includes the speaker as well as the object spoken about is formally explicated and applied to the problem of illuminating one of the deepest phenomena in standard model theory: the existence of non-isomorphic models of complete theories. To this end it is shown that standard logic admits pragmatic foundations upon which a theory of intended models can be built as an extension of standard model theory. The relevant "intending" is represented by the very forms of verbal behavior which determine the grammatical and logical structure of the sentences whose referential meaning is in question. The uniqueness properties of the class of intended models may then be described. The first section of the book states the immediate goal of standard pragmatics as that of recovering the algebraic structure first-order logic by means of a purely pragmatic construction. The second section, the major portion of the work, then provides the foundation for a semiotic theory of intended models and referential meaning. The theory is then applied to the problem of referential indeterminancy, which has been associated with the phenomenon of scientific revolutions. The theory is also applied to the problem of the apparent synonymy of observationally equivalent theories. Sweet concludes that such theories are not referentially synonymous in any natural sense which is analogous to the paradigm sense in which theories of alternative scales of measurement are referentially synonymous. A novel feature of this book is the formal explication of the idea that the factors, pragmatical in nature, which distinguish the actual meaning of a sentence from among its possible meanings, whose range is defined by the manner in which the sentence is parsed, determine that very parsing. Applicability to natural language of the model-theoretic semantics thereby obtained is made possible by another feature of the book: the development of a theory of locally standard grammar which provides the foundation for representing the structure of natural language as that of standard first-order logic, in a local, as distinguished from a global, sense. This book is intended for scholars in logic, semiotics, and the philosophies of language and of science. Those concerned specifically with such philosophers as Peirce, Martin, and Davidson will also find the study valuable.

Author : Gérard Deledalle
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1989-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789027232908

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Semiotics and Pragmatics by Gérard Deledalle Pdf

This collective volume contains carefully selected papers presented at the international semiotics conference 'Semiotique et pragmatique' that took place in Perpignan on 17 to 19 November, 1983. The volume starts of with four debate papers by Searle, Apel, Greimas and Landowski, and is followed then by the main section which is subdivided by a historical, a theoretical and a practical section.

Author : Jørgen Dines Johansen
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2002-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0802035779

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Literary Discourse by Jørgen Dines Johansen Pdf

Using the semiotic theory of American philosopher Charles S. Peirce, Johansen applies psychoanalysis, psychology, literary hermeneutics, literary history, Habermasian communication, and discourse theory to literature, and, in the process, redefines it.

Author : Klaus P. Schneider,Anne Barron
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 592 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2014-06-18
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110375022

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Pragmatics of Discourse by Klaus P. Schneider,Anne Barron Pdf

Discourse is language as it occurs, in any form or context, beyond the speech act. It may be written or spoken, monological or dialogical, but there is always a communicative aim or purpose. The present volume provides systematic orientation in the vast field of studying discourse from a pragmatic perspective. It first gives an overview of a range of approaches developed for the analysis of discourse, including, among others, conversation analysis, systemic-functional analysis, genre analysis, critical discourse analysis, corpus-driven approaches and multimodal analysis. The focus is furthermore on functional units in discourse, such as discourse markers, moves, speech act sequences, discourse phases and silence. The final section of the volume examines discourse types and domains, providing a taxonomy of discourse types and focusing on a range of discourse domains, e.g. classroom discourse, medical discourse, legal discourse, electronic discourse. Each article surveys the current state of the art of the respective topic area while also presenting new research findings.

Author : Jef Verschueren,Jan-Ola Östman
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027207784

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Key Notions for Pragmatics by Jef Verschueren,Jan-Ola Östman Pdf

The ten volumes of "Handbook of Pragmatics Highlights" focus on the most salient topics in the field of pragmatics, thus dividing its wide interdisciplinary spectrum in a transparent and manageable way. While the other volumes select specific philosophical, cognitive, grammatical, social, cultural, variational, interactional, or discursive angles, this first volume reviews basic notions that pervade the pragmatic literature, such as deixis, implicitness, speech acts, context, and the like. It situates the field of pragmatics, broadly defined as the cognitive, social, and cultural science of language use, in relation to a general concept of communication and the discipline of semiotics. It also touches upon the non-verbal aspects of language use and even ventures a comparison with non-human forms of communication. The introductory chapter, moreover, explains why a highly diversified field of scholarship such as pragmatics can be regarded as a potentially coherent enterprise.

Author : Edna Aphek,Yishai Tobin
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1990-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027278241

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The Semiotics of Fortune-telling by Edna Aphek,Yishai Tobin Pdf

This book presents a semiotic analysis of the linguistic and extralinguistic elements of fortune-telling as part of a larger pragmatic-oriented theory of human communication. The material was collected in Israel, in Hebrew, and parallels are made with other languages and cultures. The analysis is based on dynamic relativism of the multidimensional, transcendental, holistic process of human communication.

Author : Steven C. Hamel
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Culture
ISBN : 1617289922

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Semiotics by Steven C. Hamel Pdf

Semiotics is the study of sign processes (semiosis), or signification and communication, signs and symbols, and is usually divided into three branches: Semantics, Syntactics, and Pragmatics. Semiotics is frequently seen as having important anthropological dimensions. In general, semiotic theories take signs or sign systems as their object of study: the communication of information in living organisms is covered in biosemiotics or zoosemiosis. This book discusses the theory and application of semiotics across a broad spectrum and has gathered current research from around the globe.

Author : Paul Saka,Michael Johnson
Publisher : Springer
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2017-12-07
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783319687476

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The Semantics and Pragmatics of Quotation by Paul Saka,Michael Johnson Pdf

The chapters in this volume address a variety of issues surrounding quotation, such as whether it is a pragmatic or semantic phenomenon, what varieties of quotation exist, and what speech acts are involved in quoting. Quotation poses problems for many prevailing theories of language. One fundamental principle is that for a language to be learnable, speakers must be able to derive the truth-conditions of sentences from the meanings of their parts. Another popular view is that indexical expressions like "I" display a certain fixity -- that they always refer to the speaker using them. Both of these tenets appear to be violated by quotation. This volume is suitable for scholars in philosophy of language, semantics, and pragmatics, and for graduate students in philosophy and linguistics. The book will also be useful for researchers in other fields that study quotation, including psychology and computer science.

Author : Gérard Deledalle
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 481 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1989-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027278470

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Semiotics and Pragmatics by Gérard Deledalle Pdf

This collective volume contains carefully selected papers presented at the international semiotics conference ‘Semiotique et pragmatique’ that took place in Perpignan on 17 to 19 November, 1983. The volume starts of with four debate papers by Searle, Apel, Greimas and Landowski, and is followed then by the main section which is subdivided by a historical, a theoretical and a practical section.

Author : Gérard Deledalle
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9027232903

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Semiotics and Pragmatics by Gérard Deledalle Pdf

Author : Jesús Romero-Trillo
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2012-03-08
Category : Education
ISBN : 9789400738836

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Pragmatics and Prosody in English Language Teaching by Jesús Romero-Trillo Pdf

This volume explores the elusive subject of English prosody—the stress, rhythm and intonation of the language—, and its relevance for English language teaching. Its sharp focus will be especially welcomed by teachers of English to non-native speakers, but also by scholars and researchers interested in Applied Linguistics. The book examines key issues in the development of prosody and delves into the role of intonation in the construction of meaning. The contributions tackle difficult areas of intonation for language learners, providing a theoretical analysis of each stumbling block as well as a practical explanation for teachers and teacher trainers. The numerous issues dealt with in the book include stress and rhythm; tone units and information structure; intonation and pragmatic meaning; tonicity and markedness, etc... The authors have deployed speech analysis software to illustrate their examples as well as to encourage readers to carry out their own computerized prosodic analyses.

Author : Marcelo Dascal
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1983-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027280374

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Pragmatics and the Philosophy of Mind by Marcelo Dascal Pdf

This volume deals with the relation between pragmatics and the philosophy of mind. Unlike most of the books written on the subject, it does not defend the view that a specific form of dependence holds between language and thought, to the exclusion of all other possible relations. Taking pragmatics in its original sense of “that part of semiotics that is concerned with the users of a semiotic system”, the book analyses the nature of the mental processes and states mirrored in language use. Drawing on results from cognitive psychology, the philosophy of mind, the philosophy of language, linguistics, etc., a unified view of the mental dimension in the use of language, both as an instrument of communication and as an instrument of thought, is offered. After offering a tour d’horizon of the relationship between language and mind, this volume deals with the way thought is manifested in language.

Author : Marbach ODIN,Prof Dr Roger Odin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2021-12-22
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9462987149

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Spaces Communication by Marbach ODIN,Prof Dr Roger Odin Pdf

Didactical, innovative, a lot of examples

Author : Maria Luisa Dalla Chiara,Kees Doets,Daniele Mundici,Johan van Benthem
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 442 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2013-03-14
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789401705387

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Structures and Norms in Science by Maria Luisa Dalla Chiara,Kees Doets,Daniele Mundici,Johan van Benthem Pdf

This book gives a state-of-the-art survey of current research in logic and philosophy of science, as viewed by invited speakers selected by the most prestigious international organization in the field. In particular, it gives a coherent picture of foundational research into the various sciences, both natural and social. In addition, it has special interest items such as symposia on interfaces between logic and methodology, semantics and semiotics, as well as updates on the current state of the field in Eastern Europe and the Far East.