Category: Semantics

By Kenneth Taylor

I want to thank professor Taylor for the minor yet actual fulfillment of this publication -- supporting me come to an knowing of what a lifeless finish the philosophy of language has turn into considering Tarski's day.

A century in the past, the "meaning of fact" was once a sizzling topic of discussion, and the disputants have been such titans as William James, Bertrand Russell, and Josiah Royce. The query used to be now not one in every of "philosophical semantics" for them, it used to be concerning the precondition of knowledge.

The challenge isn't the trivial one approximately which philosophers now obsess. we will all agree that if snow is white, then the assertion "snow is white" is right. The query for the old-style thinker used to be what sort of connection among my brain and snow is presumed within the very probability that i could actually name it white.

By Roberta Piazza

Linguistic research of the discussion of Italian cinema, utilizing suggestions and methodologies from pragmatics, dialog research and discourse research.

By Fenrong Liu

Our personal tastes confirm how we act and imagine, yet precisely what the mechanics are and the way they paintings is a important explanation for quandary in lots of disciplines. This ebook makes use of suggestions from smooth logics of knowledge circulate and motion to enhance a unified new idea of what choice is and the way it alterations. the idea emphasizes purposes for choice, in addition to its entanglement with our ideals. additionally, the ebook offers dynamic logical structures which describe the categorical triggers using choice swap, together with new info, feedback, and instructions. In sum, the booklet creates new bridges among many fields, from philosophy and desktop technology to economics, linguistics, and psychology. For the skilled pupil entry to a wide physique of modern literature is supplied and the amateur will get an intensive creation to the motion and strategies of dynamic logic.

By Paul Elbourne

This publication argues that certain descriptions ('the table', 'the King of France') confer with participants, as Gottlob Frege claimed. This it appears uncomplicated end flies within the face of philosophical orthodoxy, which contains Bertrand Russell's thought that convinced descriptions are units of quantification. Paul Elbourne offers the 1st fully-argued defence of the Fregean view. He builds an particular fragment of English utilizing a model of state of affairs semantics. He makes use of intrinsic elements of his procedure to account for the presupposition projection behaviour of sure descriptions, various modal houses, and the matter of incompleteness. even as, he attracts on an strangely wide selection of linguistic and philosophical literature, from early paintings by way of Frege, Peano, and Russell to the newest findings in linguistics, philosophy of language, and psycholinguistics. His penultimate bankruptcy addresses the semantics of pronouns and gives a brand new and extra radical model of his previous thesis that they too are Fregean sure descriptions.

By Mark Norris Lance

What's the functionality of recommendations relating which means in sociolinguistic perform? during this research, the authors argue that we will be able to technique a passable resolution via displacing the traditional photograph of that means speak as a kind of description with photo that takes heavily the similarity among that means speak and diverse varieties of normative injunction. of their dialogue of this process, they examine the extra common query of the character of the normative, in addition to quite a number very important issues particular to the philosophy of language, together with the paintings of Quine, Sellars and Wittgenstein.

By Chris Cummins

This booklet considers how expressions regarding quantity are utilized by audio system and understood through hearers. A speaker's number of expression could be a advanced challenge even in particularly simple-looking domain names. with regards to numerical expressions, there are frequently many decisions that will be semantically appropriate: for example, if 'more than two hundred' is correct, then so is 'more than 199', 'more than 150', and 'more than 100', between others. A speaker doesn't make a choice from those strategies arbitrarily but in addition doesn't constantly keep on with any uncomplicated rule. The hearer is not only in what has been stated but additionally in any more inferences that may be drawn.

Chris Cummins deals a suite of standards that separately effect the speaker's number of expression. the method of selecting what to claim is then handled as an issue of a number of constraint delight. This method allows a number of diversified issues, drawn from ideas of semantics, philosophy, psycholinguistics and the psychology of quantity, at the same time to be built-in inside a unmarried coherent account. This constraint-based version deals novel predictions approximately utilization and interpretation which are borne out experimentally and in corpus study. It additionally explains complex facts in numerical quantification that experience formerly been dealt with by means of extra stipulative capacity, and provides a possible line of assault for addressing the matter of the speaker's selection in additional common linguistic environments.

By Angela Hansen

Die vorliegende Arbeit behandelt das Erstlingsdrama Der Hofmeister oder Vorteile der Privaterziehung von Jakob Michael Reinhold Lenz, das 1774 mit Hilfe des jungen Goethe veröffentlicht wurde. Sie verbindet eine eingehende Textanalyse mit einer historischen Betrachtung und will zeigen, daß es Lenz um Säkularisierung, Emanzipation und Glück geht, daß der junge Autor sich jedoch auf die Schultern seiner Zeitgenossen und Vorgänger stellt, um die Probleme seiner Zeit auf neue, eigenwillige Weise in den Blick zu bekommen. Auf dem Hintergrund von Holbergs Deutschfranzosen, Shakespeares Romeo and Juliet und des später entstandenen Urfaust tritt seine emanzipatorische Sicht der Generationskonflikte und Standesunterschiede sowie der Lehrertragödie und der mit der Liebesthematik verbundenen sexuellen Probleme besonders hervor. Der 21jährige Lenz wetteifert mit Holberg, Shakespeare und Rousseau, während Goethe sich in seiner ersten Faust-Fassung an Lenz als Rivalen wendet.

By René Dirven †, Louis Goossens, Yvan Putseys, Emma Vorlat

The 4 papers awarded during this quantity are corpus-based investigations into the which means of the verbs speak, talk, say and tell. extra in particular they need to discover how the scene of linguistic motion has been placed into standpoint through those 4 high-frequency verbs.

By Alan Cruse

This easy-to-use consultant illuminates key techniques and phrases in semantics and pragmatics and the research of which means because it is conveyed via language.

By Salvatore Pistoia Reda

This publication is a sophisticated debate at the nature of scalar implicatures, the most renowned issues in philosophical linguistics within the final two decades. top theorists within the box supply an updated presentation of the topic in a fashion that may aid readers to orient themselves within the great literature at the subject.