The science of meaning : essays on the metatheory of natural language semantics / edited by Derek Ball and Brian Rabern.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Ball, Derek, editor.

Rabern, Brian, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Semantics.

Meaning (Psychology).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (413 page) : illustrations

Edition:

First edition.

Other Title:

Essays on the metatheory of natural language semantics

Metatheory of natural language semantics

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2018.

Summary:

With language we command, assert, query, emote, insult, and inspire. Language has meaning, and semantics is the science of linguistic meaning. But what exactly is 'meaning'? What is the exact target of semantic theory? This volume explores these questions, in the light of the current state of the art in natural language semantics.

Contents:

1. What is

or, for that Matter, isn't

'Experimental' Semantics? / Pauline Jacobson

2. Axiomatization in the Meaning Sciences / Thomas F. Icard

3. David Lewis on Context / Robert Stalnaker

4. From Meaning to Content: Issues in Meta-Semantics / Francois Recanati

5. Reviving the Parameter Revolution in Semantics / Josh Dever

6. Changing Notions of Linguistic Competence in the History of Formal Semantics / Barbara H. Partee

7. Lexical Meaning, Concepts, and the Metasemantics of Predicates / Michael Glanzberg

8. Interpretation and the Interpreter: On the Role of the Interpreter in Davidsonian Foundational Semantics / Kathrin Gluer

9. Expressing Expectations / Frank Veltman

10. Fregean Compositionality / Thomas Ede Zimmermann

11. Semantic Typology and Composition / Paul M. Pietroski

12. Semantics as Model-Based Science / Seth Yalcin

13. Semantic Possibility / Wolfgang Schwarz

14. Semantics as Measurement / Derek Ball.

Notes:

This edition previously issued in print: 2018.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-19-105996-X

0-19-186410-2

0-19-105995-1