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Author : John Lyons
Publisher : Fontana Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Language, Meaning and Context written by John Lyons and published by Fontana Press. This book was released on 1981 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Lyons
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (131 download)
Download or read book Language, Meaning and Context. (1. Publ.) written by John Lyons and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jonathan J. Webster
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1441156445
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (411 download)
Download or read book Meaning in Context written by Jonathan J. Webster and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2008-04-21 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Author : Nicholas Asher
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139501313
Total Pages : 345 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (395 download)
Download or read book Lexical Meaning in Context written by Nicholas Asher and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2011-03-17 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Hans Kamp
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004487220
Total Pages : 566 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (44 download)
Download or read book Context-Dependence in the Analysis of Linguistic Meaning written by Hans Kamp and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-10-01 with total page 566 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Sarah-Jane Conrad
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 1501504231
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (15 download)
Download or read book Meaning, Context and Methodology written by Sarah-Jane Conrad and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2017-10-23 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Jason Stanley
Publisher : Clarendon Press
ISBN 13 : 0191527556
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (915 download)
Download or read book Language in Context written by Jason Stanley and published by Clarendon Press. This book was released on 2007-07-05 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Natural languages all contain constructions the interpretation of which depends upon the situation in which they are used. In Language and Context, Jason Stanley presents a series of essays which develop a theory of how the situation in which we speak interacts with the words we use to help produce what we say. The reason we can so smoothly operate with sentences that can be used to express very different items of information, Stanley argues, is that there are linguistically mandated constraints on the effects of the situation on what we say. These linguistically mandated constraints are most evident in the cases of sentences containing explicit pronouns, such as 'She is a mathematician', where interpretation of the information expressed is guided by the use of the pronoun 'she'. But even when such explicit pronouns are lacking, our sentences provide similar cues to allow our interlocutors to determine the information expressed. We are, in the main, confident that our interlocutors will smoothly grasp what we say, because the grammar and meaning of our sentences encodes these constraints. In defending this theory, Stanley pays close attention to specific cases of context-sensitive constructions, such as quantified noun phrases, comparative adjectives, and conditionals. Philosophers and cognitive scientist have appealed to the dependence of what is intuitively said by a sentence on the situation in which it is uttered to argue against the possibility of a systematic theory of meaning for natural language. The theory developed in this book is a vigorous defence of the possibility of a systematic theory of meaning for natural language against these influential tendencies.
Author : Stefano Predelli
Publisher : Clarendon Press
ISBN 13 : 0191535931
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (915 download)
Download or read book Contexts written by Stefano Predelli and published by Clarendon Press. This book was released on 2005-06-09 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Rita Finkbeiner
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9027255792
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)
Download or read book What is a Context? written by Rita Finkbeiner and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2012 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Kirsten Malmkjær
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521633550
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (335 download)
Download or read book Context in Language Learning and Language Understanding written by Kirsten Malmkjær and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1998-10-08 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The papers in this volume represent varied views on the role of context in language learning.
Author : Ruqaiya Hasan
Publisher : Equinox
ISBN 13 : 9781904768395
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (683 download)
Download or read book Context in the System and Process of Language written by Ruqaiya Hasan and published by Equinox. This book was released on 2012-11-30 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Meaning, Form, and Use in Context written by Deborah Schiffrin and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Hans Hörmann
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 148990560X
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (899 download)
Download or read book Meaning and Context written by Hans Hörmann and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-06-29 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Nick Riemer
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521851920
Total Pages : 477 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (218 download)
Download or read book Introducing Semantics written by Nick Riemer and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010-03-25 with total page 477 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An introduction to the study of meaning in language for undergraduate students.
Author : Lynda Pritchard Newcombe
Publisher : Multilingual Matters
ISBN 13 : 1853599948
Total Pages : 154 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (535 download)
Download or read book Social Context and Fluency in L2 Learners written by Lynda Pritchard Newcombe and published by Multilingual Matters. This book was released on 2007 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Una Stojnić
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0198865465
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (988 download)
Download or read book Context and Coherence written by Una Stojnić and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2021-02-25 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Natural languages are riddled with context-sensitivity, yet how do we understand one another so effortlessly? Contrary to the dominant position, this book argues that meaning is determined entirely by discourse conventions, as we draw on a broad array of subtle linguistic conventions that determine the interpretation of context-sensitive items.
Author : Luca Baptista
Publisher : Peter Lang
ISBN 13 : 9783034305747
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (57 download)
Download or read book Meaning and Context written by Luca Baptista and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2010 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The contextual contributions to meaning are at the core of the debate about the semantics/pragmatics distinction, one of the liveliest topics in current philosophy of language and linguistics. The controversy between semantic minimalists and contextualists regarding context and semantic content is a conspicuous example of the debate's relevance. This collection of essays, written by leading philosophers as well as talented young researchers, offers new approaches to the ongoing discussion about the status of lexical meaning and the role of context dependence in linguistic theorizing. It covers a broad range of issues in semantics and pragmatics such as presuppositions, reference, lexical meaning, discourse relations and information structure, negation, and metaphors. The book is an essential reading for philosophers, linguists, and graduate students of philosophy of language and linguistics.
