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Author : Owen Barfield
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1460 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (127 download)
Download or read book Speaker's Meaning written by Owen Barfield and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 1460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Paul H. Portner
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1405109181
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (51 download)
Download or read book What is Meaning? written by Paul H. Portner and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2005-02-04 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is Meaning? Fundamentals of Formal Semantics is a concise introduction to the field of semantics as it is actually practiced. Through simple examples, pictures, and metaphors, Paul Portner presents the field’s key ideas about how language works. Explains the fundamental ideas and some of the most significant results of modern semantic theory Combines foundational discussion with simplified analyses of complex phenomena to provide readers with a sense of the fascination to be found in the details of the human language Includes exercises and thought-provoking questions to facilitate learning
Author : Gillian Brown
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521587051
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (87 download)
Download or read book Speakers, Listeners and Communication written by Gillian Brown and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book Gillian Brown draws on a wide range of examples of discourse analysis to explore the ways in which speakers and listeners use language collaboratively to talk about what they can see in front of them and about a series of events. She examines the conditions under which communication is successful, and the conditions under which it sometimes fails. The focus of her attention is upon the listener's role, as the listener tries to make sense of what the speaker says in a highly constrained context; her cognitive/pragmatic approach to discourse analysis both complements and challenges the sociological/anthropological perspectives on the subject which currently predominate. Gillian Brown is co-author of the well-known textbook Discourse Analysis (Cambridge University Press, 1983).
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 : G. Preyer
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9781402013294
Total Pages : 438 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (132 download)
Download or read book Concepts of Meaning written by G. Preyer and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2003-07-31 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume includes contributions from well-known philosophers of language and semanticists. It is a useful collection for students in philosophy of language, semantics and epistemology. It discusses new research in semantics, theory of truth, philosophy of language and theory of communication from a trans-disciplinary perspective and addresses issues such as sentence meaning, utterance meaning, speaker's intention and reference, linguistic context, circumstances and background theories.
Author : Maria Aloni
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3642142877
Total Pages : 484 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (421 download)
Download or read book Logic, Language and Meaning written by Maria Aloni and published by Springer. This book was released on 2010-09-21 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book contains the revised papers presented at the Amsterdam Colloquium 2009, held in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, in December 2009. The 41 thoroughly refereed and revised contributions presented together with the revised abstracts of 5 invited talks are organized in five sections: the first section contains extended abstracts of the talks given by the invited speakers; the second, third and fourth sections contain invited and submitted contributions to the three thematic workshops hosted by the colloquium: the Workshop on Implicature and Grammar, the Workshop on Natural Logic, and the Workshop on Vagueness; the final section consists of submissions to the general program. The topics covered range from descriptive (syntactic and semantic analyses of all kinds of expressions) to theoretical (logical and computational properties of semantic theories, philosophical foundations, evolution and learning of language).
Author : Geert Keil
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198782888
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (987 download)
Download or read book Vagueness and Law written by Geert Keil and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vague expressions are omnipresent in natural language. As such, their use in legal texts is virtually inevitable. If a law contains vague terms, the question whether it applies to a particular case often lacks a clear answer. One of the fundamental pillars of the rule of law is legal certainty. The determinacy of the law enables people to use it as a guide and places judges in the position to decide impartially. Vagueness poses a threat to these ideals. In borderline cases, the law seems to be indeterminate and thus incapable of serving its core rule of law value. In the philosophy of language, vagueness has become one of the hottest topics of the last two decades. Linguists and philosophers have investigated what distinguishes "soritical" vagueness from other kinds of linguistic indeterminacy, such as ambiguity, generality, open texture, and family resemblance concepts. There is a vast literature that discusses the logical, semantic, pragmatic, and epistemic aspects of these phenomena. Legal theory has hitherto paid little attention to the differences between the various kinds of linguistic indeterminacy that are grouped under the heading of "vagueness", let alone to the various theories that try to account for these phenomena. Bringing together leading scholars working on the topic of vagueness in philosophy and in law, this book fosters a dialogue between philosophers and legal scholars by examining how philosophers conceive vagueness in law from their theoretical perspective and how legal theorists make use of philosophical theories of vagueness. The chapters of the book are organized into three parts. The first part addresses the import of different theories of vagueness for the law, referring to a wide range of theories from supervaluationist to contextualist and semantic realist accounts in order to address the question of whether the law can learn from engaging with philosophical discussions of vagueness. The second part of the book examines different vagueness phenomena. The contributions in part 2 suggest that the greater awareness to different vagueness phenomena can make lawyers aware of specific issues and solutions so far overlooked. The third part deals with the pragmatic aspects of vagueness in law, providing answers to the question of how to deal with vagueness in law and with the professional, political, moral, and ethical issues such vagueness gives rise to.
Author : Brian Loar
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199673357
Total Pages : 341 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (996 download)
Download or read book Consciousness and Meaning written by Brian Loar and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the most important problems of modern philosophy concerns the place of subjectivity in a purely physical universe. Brian Loar was a major contributor to the discussion of this problem for over four decades. This volume brings together his most important and influential essays in the philosophy of language and of mind.
Author : Johan van Benthem
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9400707142
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (7 download)
Download or read book Games, Norms and Reasons written by Johan van Benthem and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2011-03-30 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Games, Norms, and Reasons: Logic at the Crossroads provides an overview of modern logic focusing on its relationships with other disciplines, including new interfaces with rational choice theory, epistemology, game theory and informatics. This book continues a series called "Logic at the Crossroads" whose title reflects a view that the deep insights from the classical phase of mathematical logic can form a harmonious mixture with a new, more ambitious research agenda of understanding and enhancing human reasoning and intelligent interaction. The editors have gathered together articles from active authors in this new area that explore dynamic logical aspects of norms, reasons, preferences and beliefs in human agency, human interaction and groups. The book pays a special tribute to Professor Rohit Parikh, a pioneer in this movement.
Author : Marta Aguilar
Publisher : Peter Lang
ISBN 13 : 9783039115099
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (15 download)
Download or read book Metadiscourse in Academic Speech written by Marta Aguilar and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2008 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title studies spoken metadiscourse in two academic genres in the engineering field, the lecture and the peer seminar. It examines what motivates metadiscourse and how engineering academics resort to different types of metadiscourse when they address different audiences.
Author : John Shand
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317494334
Total Pages : 345 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (174 download)
Download or read book Central Works of Philosophy v5 written by John Shand and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-12-18 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Central Works of Philosophy is a major multi-volume collection of essays on the core texts of the Western philosophical tradition. From Plato's Republic to the present day, the five volumes range over 2,500 years of philosophical writing covering the best, most representative, and most influential work of some of our greatest philosophers. Each essay has been specially commissioned and provides an overview of the work, clear and authoritative exposition of its central ideas, and an assessment of the work's importance. Together these books provide an unrivaled companion for studying and reading philosophy, one that introduces the reader to the masterpieces of the western philosophical canon. This volume covers the central texts in the history of analytic philosophy from Quine's Word and Object (1960) to the present day. The texts range over political philosophy, ethics, metaphysics and the philosophies of language, mind and logic and represent some of the most important philosophical work of the last forty years. Students and non-specialists who may find the technicality of some of the texts forbidding will welcome the clarity of exposition and exegesis that the essays provide. Taken together the essays provide both a map and compass for the current philosophical landscape and will prove a valuable resource not only for undergraduate and postgraduate philosophy students but for teachers and researchers in allied disciplines who need an understanding of the preoccupations of contemporary philosophy.
Author : John Shand
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 0773530827
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (735 download)
Download or read book Central Works of Philosophy, Volume 5 written by John Shand and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2005 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume 1 gives readers a deep understanding of the contribution that the ancient Greek and medieval philosophers have made to contemporary philosophical debate. From Plato to William of Ockham, the philosophical texts covered offer a remarkable insight into a world out of which our present way of thinking emerged.
Author : Patrick Griffiths
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 1474412823
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (744 download)
Download or read book Introduction to English Semantics and Pragmatics written by Patrick Griffiths and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2016-12-15 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An introduction to the linguistic study of meaning, this book outlines the meaning potential (semantics) of English and how language knowledge is put to use (pragmatics). As well as gaining a systematic overview of meaning in English, readers can learn how to argue for analyses. Among the significant concepts introduced are denotation, sense relations, event types, explicature, implicature, presupposition, metaphor, reference, speech acts and (at an elementary level) Generalised Quantifier Theory. Sense relations - such as antonymy and hyponymy - are presented as summarising patterns of entailment. The sense of a word is seen as the contributions it makes to the entailments carried by sentences.
Author : Stuart Brown
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1441192417
Total Pages : 1246 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (411 download)
Download or read book Dictionary of Twentieth-Century British Philosophers written by Stuart Brown and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2005-06-01 with total page 1246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a two-volume work with entries on individuals who made some contribution to philosophy in the period 1900 to 1960 or soon after. The entries deal with the whole philosophical work of an individual or, in the case of philosophers still living, their whole work to date. Typically the individuals included have been born by 1935 and by now have made their main contributions. Contributions to the subject typically take the form of books or journal articles, but influential teachers and people otherwise important in the world of philosophy may also be included. The dictionary includes amateurs as well as professional philosophers and, where appropriate, thinkers whose main discipline was outside philosophy. There are special problems about the term "British" in the twentieth century, partly because of human migration, partly because of decolonialization and the changing denotation of the term. The intention has been to include not only those who were British subjects at least for a significant part of their lives (even if they mostly lived outside what is now the U.K.) but also people who spent a significant part of their lives in Britain itself, irrespective of their nationality or country of origin. In the first category are included, for instance, a number of people who were born and educated in Britain but who subsequently taught in universities abroad. In the second category are included those who were born elsewhere but who came to Britain and contributed to its philosophical culture.
Author : Wayne Otto
Publisher : Elsevier
ISBN 13 : 0323156185
Total Pages : 319 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (231 download)
Download or read book Reading Expository Material written by Wayne Otto and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2014-01-01 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reading Expository Material focuses on the techniques on how to apply the skills in reading tasks outside of formal reading instruction. This book explores the problems related to skill application that are encountered by reading specialists and educators. Organized into six parts encompassing 17 chapters, this book starts with an overview of the categories of the study, including the reader, the text, and the interaction of reader with text. This text then examines the readers' metacognitive development, the development of study skills, and learning strategies. Other chapters explore the concept of knowledge and explain how knowledge comes into play in the process of perception and comprehension. This book discusses as well the developments in cognitive psychology and in artificial intelligence. The final chapter reviews how to enable teachers in the classroom to deal more realistically with the facts of a reader–text interaction. Reading specialists, researchers, and educators with an interest in the teaching of and learning from expository materials will find this book useful.
Author : Elda Weizman
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9027290814
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)
Download or read book Positioning in Media Dialogue written by Elda Weizman and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2008-12-17 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book proposes a socio-pragmatic exploration of the discursive practices used to construe and dynamically negotiate positions in news interviews. It starts with a discursive interpretation of ‘positioning’, ‘role’ and ‘challenge’, puts forward the relevance of a distinction between social and interactional roles, demonstrates how challenges bring to the fore the relevant roles and role-components of the participants, and shows that in news interviews speakers constantly position and re-position themselves and each other through discourse.The discussion draws on an empirical fine-grained analysis of a 24-hour corpus of news interviews on Israeli television and a corpus of media references. The author postulates a discrepancy between interlocutors’ normative expectations, which presuppose an asymmetrical division of labor, on the one hand, and real-life practice, which exhibits partial symmetry in speakers’ selection of discourse patterns as well as reciprocity in the use of challenge strategies, on the other. Special attention is given to irony and terms of address, which are shown to act as the center-points of satellite challenge strategies, geared as an ensemble toward the co-construction of reciprocal positioning. The analysis of three case studies further sheds light on the negotiations of intertwined positionings in context.
Author : Richard Ekins
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199646996
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (996 download)
Download or read book The Nature of Legislative Intent written by Richard Ekins and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2012-10-11 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The idea of legislative intent plays a central role in legal interpretation and constitutional theory, yet is repeatedly challenged as being an illusion. Refuting these challenges, this book develops a robust account of how and why legislatures form intentions, and the importance of these intentions to understanding law and parliamentary democracy.
