The Science of Meaning: Essays on the Metatheory of Natural Language Semantics First Edition Derek Ball

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• ISBN 10: 019105996X
• ISBN 13: 9780191059964
• Author: Derek Ball

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. Semantics is the study of meaning. But what exactly is “meaning”? What is the exact target of semantic theory? Much of the early work in natural language semantics was accompanied by extensive reflection on the aims of semantic theory, and the form a theory must take to meet those aims. But this meta-theoretical reflection has not kept pace with recent theoretical innovations. This volume re-addresses these questions concerning the foundations of natural language semantics in light of the current state-of-the-art in semantic theorising.

Table contents:

1. What is—or, for that Matter, isn’t—‘Experimental’ Semantics?

2. Axiomatization in the Meaning Sciences

3. David Lewis on Context

4. From Meaning to Content: Issues in Meta-Semantics

5. Reviving the Parameter Revolution in Semantics

6. Changing Notions of Linguistic Competence in the History of Formal Semantics

7. Lexical Meaning, Concepts, and the Metasemantics of Predicates

8. Interpretation and the Interpreter: On the Role of the Interpreter in Davidsonian Foundational Semantics

9. Expressing Expectations

10. Fregean Compositionality

11. Semantic Typology and Composition

12. Semantics as Model-Based Science

13. Semantic Possibility

14. Semantics as Measurement

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