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"By creating certain marks on paper, or by making certain sounds-breathing past a moving tongue-or by articulation of hands and bodies, language users can give expression to their mental lives. With language we command, assert, query, emote, insult, and inspire. Language has meaning. This fact can be quite mystifying, yet a science of linguistic meaning-semantics-has emerged at the intersection of a variety of disciplines: philosophy, linguistics, computer science, and psychology. Semantics is the study of meaning. But what exactly is ""meaning""? What is the exact target of semantic theory? Much of the early work in natural language semantics was accompanied by extensive reflection on the aims of semantic theory, and the form a theory must take to meet those aims. But this meta-theoretical reflection has not kept pace with recent theoretical innovations. This volume re-addresses these questions concerning the foundations of natural language semantics in light of the current state-of-the-art in semantic theorising."

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Author:   Derek Ball (Lecturer in Philosophy, Lecturer in Philosophy, University of St Andrews) ,  Brian Rabern (Lecturer in Philosophy, Lecturer in Philosophy, University of Edinburgh)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 16.30cm , Height: 2.90cm , Length: 24.00cm
Weight:   0.768kg
ISBN:  

9780198739548

ISBN 10:   0198739540
Pages:   422
Publication Date:   02 August 2018
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

0: Derek Ball and Brian Rabern: Introduction to the science of meaning 1: Pauline Jacobson: What is - or, for that matter, isn't - 'experimental' semantics? 2: Wesley H. Holliday and Thomas F. Icard, III: Axiomatization in the meaning sciences 3: Robert Stalnaker: David Lewis on context 4: François Recanati: From meaning to content 5: Bryan Pickel, Brian Rabern, and Josh Dever: Reviving the parameter revolution in semantics 6: Barbara Partee: Changing notions of linguistic competence in the history of formal semantics 7: Michael Glanzberg: Lexical meaning, concepts, and the metasemantics of predicates 8: Kathrin Glüer: Interpretation and the interpreter 9: Inés Crespo, Hadil Karawani, and Frank Veltman: Expressing expectations 10: Thomas Ede Zimmermann: Fregean compositionality 11: Paul Pietroski: Semantic typology and composition 12: Seth Yalcin: Semantics as model-based science 13: Wolfgang Schwarz: Semantic possibility 14: Derek Ball: Semantics as measurement

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Ball and Rabern have collected a set of prestigious chapters that well represent the current state of reflections on the nature, structure, and foundations of theories in mainstream FS. The volume will be of great interest to semanticists and contains a fair number of must-read essays (e.g., by Partee, Recanati, Yalcin) that could easily also be appreciated by linguists, cognitive scientists, and philosophers of language. * Giosue Baggio, Journal of Logic, Language and Information *

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Derek Ball is a lecturer in philosophy at the University of St Andrews. His professional interests include the philosophy of language and philosophy of mind. Brian Rabern is a lecturer in philosophy at the University of Edinburgh. His main research interests centre around philosophy of language, logic, and formal semantics.

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