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Concepts of meaning : framing an integrated theory of linguistic behavior / edited by Gerhard Preyer, Georg Peter and Maria Ulkan.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Philosophical studies series ; v. 92.
- Philosophical studies series ; v. 92
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Speech acts (Linguistics).
- Semantics.
- Physical Description:
- xv, 273 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Dordrecht ; Boston : Kluwer Academic Publishers, [2003]
- Summary:
- Concepts of Meaning includes contributions from well-known philosophers of language and semanticists. It is a useful collection for students in philosophy of language, semantics and epistemology. This work discusses new research in semantics, theory of truth, philosophy of language and theory of communication from a trans-disciplinary perspective. An integrated theory of linguistic behavior should provide a framework to make behavior intelligible. This work addresses issues such as sentence meaning, utterance meaning, speaker's intention and reference, linguistic context, circumstances and background theories. Readers will learn that interpretation is a result of a complex pattern.
- Contents:
- I Speaker Meaning, Communication, and Intentions
- 1 Communicative and Illocutionary Acts / Maria Ulkan 3
- 2 Language Acts and Action / Louise Roska-Hardy 21
- 3 Reflections on the Intentionality of Linguistic Behavior / Jan Nuyts 39
- 4 Descriptions, Indexicals, and Speaker Meaning / Reinaldo Elugardo 61
- 5 Informatives and/or Directives? (A New Start in Speech Act Classification) / Georg Meggle, Maria Ulkan 99
- 6 Constructive Speech-Act Theory / Dirk Hartmann 113
- II Truth, Semantic Content, and Externalism
- 7 The Truth about Moods / Kirk Ludwig 133
- 8 Semantic Theory and Indirect Speech / Herman Cappelen, Ernie Lepore 183
- 9 All Facts Great and Small / Richard N. Manning 199
- 10 Knowledge, Content, and the Wellsprings of Objectivity / Ron Wilburn 223
- 11 Interpretation and Skill: On Passing Theory / David Simpson 251.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1402013299
- OCLC:
- 52121433
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