| Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 921 pages) : illustrations |
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OUP E-Books
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| Contents |
Contributors; I. Introduction; 1. Preliminaries; 2. Linguistics and Psychology; 3. Linguistics and Logic; 4. Theories of Reference and Theories of Meaning; 5. Internalist and Externalist Semantic Theories; 6. Semantics and Context; 7. Conclusion; 8. Appendix; II. Background; 9. The Principle of Semantic Compositionality; 10. Ambiguity, Indeterminacy, Deixis, and Vagueness: Evidence and Theory; III. Approaches; 11. General Semantics; 12. Truth and Meaning; 13. A Theory of Truth and Semantic Representation; 14. Dynamic Predicate Logic; 15. Situations and Attitudes |
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16. What Is a Concept, That a Person May Grasp It?17. Mental Spaces, Language Modalities, and Conceptual Integration; IV. Topics; 18. The Generative Lexicon; 19. Towards a Common Semantics for English Count and Mass Nouns; 20. Reference and Proper Names; 21. Pronouns; 22. Pronouns and Bound Variables; 23. Generalized Quantifiers and Natural Language; 24. The Tenses of Verbs; 25. Some Structural Analogies between Tenses and Pronouns in English; 26. Two Theories about Adjectives; 27. Prepositions and Points of View; 28. On Semantic and Distributional Properties of Sentential Adverbs |
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29. A Semantic Theory of Adverbs30. Adverbs of Quantification; 31. Semantics and Pragmatics of Sentence Connectives in Natural Language; 32. A Cross-Categorial Semantics for Coordination; 33. The Meaning of Connectives; 34. Interrogatives; 35. Success, Satisfaction, and Truth in the Logic of Speech Acts and Formal Semantics; 36. The Logical Form of Action Sentences; V. Context Dependency; 37. Demonstratives; 38. Truth and Demonstratives; 39. Scorekeeping in a Language Game; 40. Explicature and Semantics; 41. Quantifier Phrases, Meaningfulness "in Isolation," and Ellipsis; Bibliography; Index |
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AB; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z |
| Summary |
In this selection of published articles in the area of semantics, Steven Davis and Brendan Gillon try to obtain a representative coverage of topics, approaches, and recognized authors; while choosing articles which have made an important contribution to the field and are accessible to students as well as scholars. The volume will have appeal as a textbook for upper level courses and as a reference for scholars of linguistics, phonology, and philosophy of language. Semantics: A Reader may serve as a companion to Davis's: Pragmatics: A Reader |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 867-898) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Semantics.
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Semantics (Philosophy)
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Semantics
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semantics.
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LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Linguistics -- Semantics.
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Semantics
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Semantics (Philosophy)
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Davis, Steven, 1937-
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Gillon, Brendan S
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| LC no. |
2003054940 |
| ISBN |
1423760859 |
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9781423760856 |
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1280473657 |
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9781280473654 |
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9780195136975 |
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0195136977 |
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9780195136982 |
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0195136985 |
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1433700891 |
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9781433700897 |
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9786610473656 |
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661047365X |
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