Nondescriptive meaning and reference : an ideational semantics / Wayne A. Davis.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Davis, Wayne A., 1951- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Meaning (Philosophy).

Reference (Philosophy).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiii, 450 pages) : illustrations

Other Title:

Ideational semantics

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2005.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Nondescriptive Meaning and Reference extends Wayne Davis's groundbreaking work on the foundations of semantics. Davis revives the classical doctrine that meaning consists in the expression of ideas, and advances the expression theory by showing how it can account for standard proper names, and the distinctive way their meaning determines their reference. He also shows how the theory can handle interjections, syncategorematic terms, conventional implicatures, and other caseslong seen as difficult for both ideational and referential theories. The expression theory is founded on the fact that tho

Contents:

Thoughts

Ideas

Speaker meaning and expression

Word meaning

Nondescriptive meaning

Reference and expression

Reference and intention

Meaning and reference

Millian theories

Defenses of millianism

Fregean theories

Standard name meaning

Formal semantics

Rigidity and identity.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [395]-437) and index.

Description based on print version record.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

1-281-19815-3

9786611198152

0-19-153214-2

1-4356-2261-8

OCLC:

735625737