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Living words : meaning underdetermination and the dynamic lexicon / Peter Ludlow.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ludlow, Peter, 1957- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Word (Linguistics)--Morphology.
- Word (Linguistics).
- Grammar, Comparative and general.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (x, 189 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2014.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Peter Ludlow shows how word meanings are much more dynamic than we might have supposed, and explores how they are modulated even during everyday conversation. The resulting view is radical, and has far-reaching consequences for our political and legal discourse, and for enduring puzzles in the foundations of semantics, epistemology, and logic.
- Contents:
- Introduction
- Norms of word meaning litigation
- The nature of the dynamic lexicon
- Meaning underdetermination, logic, and vagueness
- Consequences for analytic philosophy
- Metaphor and beyond.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-178140-1
- OCLC:
- 891384889
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