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Linguistic Meaning

Author : Keith Allan
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134742444
Total Pages : 826 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (347 download)

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Download or read book Linguistic Meaning written by Keith Allan and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-02-03 with total page 826 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dr Keith Allan presents a coherent, consistent and comprehensive account of linguistic meaning, centred around an informally presented theory of meaning. It is intended for graduate and undergraduate students of linguistics, or any linguist curious about what a theory of meaning should seek to accomplish and the way to achieve that aim. The work assumes that the primary task of a theory of linguistic meaning is to describe the meaning of speech acts. This in turn presupposes a theory of semantics and a theory of prosodic meaning, as well as a proper treatment of the co-operative principle, context and background information. These matters are dealt with in detail. The second task of a theory of linguistic meaning is to identify what meaning is, to explain the relationships between sense and denotation, and to explicate the nature of meaningful properties and meaning relations. These matters are fully covered, and the work concludes with a summary of the principle arguments presented.

The Unity of Linguistic Meaning

Author : John Collins
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 9780198709329
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (93 download)

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Download or read book The Unity of Linguistic Meaning written by John Collins and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2015-05-07 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Collins presents an analysis of the problem of the unity of the proposition - how propositions can be both single things and complexes at the same time. He surveys previous investigations of the problem and offers his own solution, which is defended from both philosophical and linguistic perspectives.

Social Meaning and Linguistic Variation

Author : Lauren Hall-Lew
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108633609
Total Pages : 405 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (86 download)

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Download or read book Social Meaning and Linguistic Variation written by Lauren Hall-Lew and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-08-12 with total page 405 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 'third wave' of variation study, spearheaded by the sociolinguist Penelope Eckert, places its focus on social meaning, or the inferences that can be drawn about speakers based on how they talk. While social meaning has always been a concern of modern sociolinguistics, its aims and assumptions have not been explicitly spelled out until now. This pioneering book provides a comprehensive overview of the central tenets of variation study, examining several components of dialects, and considering language use in a wide variety of cultural and linguistic contexts. Each chapter, written by a leader in the field, posits a unique theoretical claim about social meaning and presents new empirical data to shed light on the topic at hand. The volume makes a case for why attending to social meaning is vital to the study of variation while also providing a foundation from which variationists can productively engage with social meaning.

Game Theory and Linguistic Meaning

Author : Ahti-Veikko Pietarinen
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 0080548520
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (85 download)

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Book Synopsis Game Theory and Linguistic Meaning by : Ahti-Veikko Pietarinen

Download or read book Game Theory and Linguistic Meaning written by Ahti-Veikko Pietarinen and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2007-06-30 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first book to collect research on game-theoretic tools in the analysis of language with particular reference to semantics and pragmatics. Games are significant, because they pertain equally to pragmatics and semantics of natural language. The book provides an overview of the variety of ways in which game theory is used in the analysis of linguistic meaning and shows how games arise in pragmatic as well as semantic investigations. The book is a balanced combination of philosophical, linguistic, logical and mathematical argumentation. The book has an introductory and a concluding chapter, written by the editor, to give a gentle introduction to the topics covered in the book and to provide wider conclusions and prospects arising from the individual essays. The major topics covering the field of game theory and linguistic meaning included in the book are: language games, Wittgenstein evolutionary language games communication games, Grice games of partial information equilibrium semantics game-theoretic semantics logical modelling, and generalised quantifiers the semantics/pragmatics distinction. It includes international contributions from known leaders in the field. It is part of the Current Research in Semantics/Pragmatics Interface series.

Linguistic Meaning, Truth Conditions and Relevance

Author : C. Iten
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230503233
Total Pages : 277 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (35 download)

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Download or read book Linguistic Meaning, Truth Conditions and Relevance written by C. Iten and published by Springer. This book was released on 2005-05-13 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The main argument of this book is that the notion of truth plays no role in speaker-hearers' interpretation of linguistic utterances and that it is not needed for theoretical accounts of linguistic meaning either. The theoretical argument is developed in the first part, while the second part supports it with cognitive relevance-theoretic, rather than truth-based, analyses of the 'concessive' expressions but, although and even if .

Language and Meaning

Author : Betty J Birner
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351374044
Total Pages : 129 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (513 download)

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Download or read book Language and Meaning written by Betty J Birner and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-11-06 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Language and Meaning provides a clear, accessible and unique perspective on the philosophical and linguistic question of what it means to mean. Looking at relationships such as those between literal and non-literal meanings, linguistic form and meaning, and language and thought, this volume tackles the issues involved in what we mean and how we convey it. Divided into five easy-to-read chapters, it features: Broad coverage of semantic, pragmatic and philosophical approaches, providing the reader with a balanced and comprehensive overview of the topic; Frequent examples to demonstrate how meaning is perceived and manipulated in everyday discourse, including the importance of context, scientific studies of human language, and theories of pragmatics; Topics of debate and key points of current theories, including references to ongoing controversies in the field; Annotated further reading, allowing students to explore topics in more detail. Aimed at undergraduate students with little or no prior knowledge of linguistics, this book is essential reading for those studying this topic for the first time.

Relevance and Linguistic Meaning

Author : Diane Blakemore
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139437305
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (394 download)

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Download or read book Relevance and Linguistic Meaning written by Diane Blakemore and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2002-09-26 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The importance of discourse markers (words like 'so', 'however', and 'well') lies in the theoretical questions they raise about the nature of discourse and the relationship between linguistic meaning and context. They are regarded as being central to semantics because they raise problems for standard theories of meaning, and to pragmatics because they seem to play a role in the way discourse is understood. In this new and important study, Diane Blakemore argues that attempts to analyse these expressions within standard semantic frameworks raise even more problems, while their analysis as expressions that link segments of discourse has led to an unproductive and confusing exercise in classification. She concludes that the exercise in classification that has dominated discourse marker research should be replaced by the investigation of the way in which linguistic expressions contribute to the inferential processes involved in utterance understanding.

The Unity of Linguistic Meaning

Author : John Collins
Publisher : Oxford University Press (UK)
ISBN 13 : 0199694842
Total Pages : 219 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (996 download)

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Download or read book The Unity of Linguistic Meaning written by John Collins and published by Oxford University Press (UK). This book was released on 2011-09-29 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Collins presents an analysis of the problem of the unity of the proposition - how propositions can be both single things and complexes at the same time. He surveys previous investigations of the problem and offers his own solution, which is defended from both philosophical and linguistic perspectives.

Context-Dependence in the Analysis of Linguistic Meaning

Author : Hans Kamp
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004487220
Total Pages : 566 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (44 download)

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Book Synopsis Context-Dependence in the Analysis of Linguistic Meaning by : Hans Kamp

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.

Language and Meaning in the Age of Modernism

Author : James McElvenny
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 1474425046
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (744 download)

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Book Synopsis Language and Meaning in the Age of Modernism by : James McElvenny

Download or read book Language and Meaning in the Age of Modernism written by James McElvenny and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2018-01-09 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the influential currents in the philosophy of language and linguistics of the first half of the twentieth century, from the perspective of the English scholar C. K. Ogden (1889 - 1957). It reveals links between early analytic philosophy, semiotics and linguistics in a crucial period of their respective histories.

Form-Meaning Connections in Second Language Acquisition

Author : Bill VanPatten
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135614202
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (356 download)

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Book Synopsis Form-Meaning Connections in Second Language Acquisition by : Bill VanPatten

Download or read book Form-Meaning Connections in Second Language Acquisition written by Bill VanPatten and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-07-21 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume addresses theoretical and research domains related to questions of how forms-meaning connections are initiated, processed, and stored, and what internal and external factors may affect these mappings.

The Meaning of Language, second edition

Author : Heidi Savage
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262535734
Total Pages : 413 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (625 download)

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Download or read book The Meaning of Language, second edition written by Heidi Savage and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2020-01-21 with total page 413 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new edition of a comprehensive introduction to the philosophy of language, substantially updated and reorganized. The philosophy of language aims to answer a broad range of questions about the nature of language, including “what is a language?” and “what is the source of meaning?” This accessible comprehensive introduction to the philosophy of language begins with the most basic properties of language and only then proceeds to the phenomenon of meaning. The second edition has been significantly expanded and reorganized, putting the original content in a contemporary context and offering substantial new material, with extended discussions and entirely new chapters. After establishing the basics, the book discusses general criteria for an adequate theory of meaning, takes a first pass at describing meaning at an abstract level, and distinguishes between meaning and other related phenomena. Building on this, the book then addresses various specific theories of meaning, beginning with early foundational theories and proceeding to more contemporary ones. New to this edition are expanded discussions of Chomsky's work and compositional semantics, among other topics, and new chapters on such subjects as propositions, Montague grammar, and contemporary theories of language. Each chapter has technical terms in bold, followed by definitions, and offers a list of main points and suggested further readings. The book is suitable for use in undergraduate courses in philosophy and linguistics. Some background in philosophy is assumed, but knowledge of philosophy of language is not necessary.

Linguistics in a Colonial World

Author : Joseph Errington
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1444329057
Total Pages : 213 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (443 download)

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Download or read book Linguistics in a Colonial World written by Joseph Errington and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2010-04-30 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on both original texts and critical literature, Linguistics in a Colonial World surveys the methods, meanings, and uses of early linguistic projects around the world. Explores how early endeavours in linguistics were used to aid in overcoming practical and ideological difficulties of colonial rule Traces the uses and effects of colonial linguistic projects in the shaping of identities and communities that were under, or in opposition to, imperial regimes Examines enduring influences of colonial linguistics in contemporary thinking about language and cultural difference Brings new insight into post-colonial controversies including endangered languages and language rights in the globalized twenty-first century

Language-meaning-social Construction Interdisciplinary Studies

Author : Colin B. Grant
Publisher : Rodopi
ISBN 13 : 9789042014480
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (144 download)

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Book Synopsis Language-meaning-social Construction Interdisciplinary Studies by : Colin B. Grant

Download or read book Language-meaning-social Construction Interdisciplinary Studies written by Colin B. Grant and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 2001 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This uniquely interdisciplinary collection of essays derives in part from a two-day international conference held at Heriot-Watt University in November 1999 and conceived as a critical forum for the discussion of the concept of interaction. The collection satisfies a continuing need for interdisciplinary and multi-disciplinary research in the humanities and stems from an awareness of the growing currency of interactionist theories in several fields and the need to make a critical contribution to such theories and related concepts such as intersubjectivity and dialogism. Rather than advancing an apologetic view of interaction as something given, the contributors carefully consider and challenge commonly held epistemological and theoretical assumptions relating to the interaction concept. Interaction, if it is to be a meaningful concept, must be seen in terms of its modes (e.g. linguistic, media-based), units (language, logic, communication), objectives (understanding, consensus, stability) and fields of operation (face-to-face interaction, translation, social codification). This collection is intended to offer a provisional response to the question posed by one of its contributors, 'What does it mean today that communication as the mechanism of social co-ordination has itself become complex?'. It means that erstwhile certainties of meaning transmission, stability, duality or dichotomy, identity and difference can be challenged and theoretically modelled in new contexts. Interdisciplinarity is one means by which to illuminate this complexity from several sides in the pursuit of theoretical blind spots in the field of critical communication studies. The book will be of particular interest to researchers and students in communication theory, linguistics, translation studies, logic, social psychology, discourse studies, European Studies, philosophy and semiotics.

Language, Meaning and the Law

Author : Christopher Hutton
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 0748633529
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (486 download)

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Download or read book Language, Meaning and the Law written by Christopher Hutton and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2009-01-19 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Language, Meaning and the Law offers an accessible, critical guide to debates about linguistic meaning and interpretation in relation to legal language. Law is an ideal domain for considering fundamental questions relating to how we assign meanings to words, understand and comment on texts, and deal with socially and ideologically significant questions of interpretation. The book argues that theoretical issues of concern to linguists, philosophers, literary theorists and others are illuminated by the demands of the legal context, since law is driven by the need for practical solutions and for determinate outcomes based on explicit reasoning. Topics covered include: the relationship of linguistics to legal theory, indeterminacy and statutory interpretation, the theory and practice of using dictionaries in law, defamation and language in the public sphere, and the distinction between perjury and deception. This book does not assume specialist knowledge of the field, and is designed as a self-contained, advanced introduction to a fascinating area of study. The reader will gain an overall insight into issues and debates about meaning and interpretation, as well as an understanding of how these questions are shaped by the legal context.

Beyond Meaning: A Journey Across Language, Perception and Experience

Author : Gaetano Fiorin
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030463176
Total Pages : 331 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (34 download)

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Book Synopsis Beyond Meaning: A Journey Across Language, Perception and Experience by : Gaetano Fiorin

Download or read book Beyond Meaning: A Journey Across Language, Perception and Experience written by Gaetano Fiorin and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-06-17 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Natural languages – idioms such as English and Cantonese, Zulu and Amharic, Basque and Nicaraguan Sign Language – allow their speakers to convey meaning and transmit meaning to one another. But what is meaning exactly? What is this thing that words convey and speakers communicate? Few questions are as elusive as this. Yet, few features are as essential to who we are and what we do as human beings as the capacity to convey meaning through language. In this book, Gaetano Fiorin and Denis Delfitto disclose a notion of linguistic meaning that is structured around three distinct, yet interconnected dimensions: a linguistic dimension, relating meaning to the linguistic forms that convey it; a material dimension, relating meaning to the material and social conditions of its environment; and a psychological dimension, relating meaning to the cognitive lives of its users. By paying special attention to the puzzle surrounding first-person reference – the way speakers exploit language to refer to themselves – and by capitalizing on a number of recent findings in the cognitive sciences, Fiorin and Delfitto develop the original hypothesis that meaningful language shares the same underlying logical and metaphysical structure of sense perception, effectively acting as a system of classification and discrimination at the interface between cognitive agents and their ecologies.

Meaning, Use, and Interpretation of Language

Author : Rainer Bäuerle
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3110852829
Total Pages : 500 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (18 download)

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Download or read book Meaning, Use, and Interpretation of Language written by Rainer Bäuerle and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2012-02-13 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: