Meaning : semantics, pragmatics, cognition /: semantics, pragmatics, cognition. (2023)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Betty J. Birner.
• Authors: Birner, Betty J
• Contents: List of boxes List of figures List of truth tables Preface Acknowledgments 1. What is language? Linguistics The rules of language Language change Research in linguistics Philosophy of language: How meaning works Types of meaning Where is meaning located? The philosophers weigh in, beginning with: Frege Russell Strawson Donnellan The upshot Semantics and pragmatics Discourse models and possible worlds Exercises; 2. Semantics I: Word meaning What is a word? Where words come from Historical descent Other sources of new words Lexical relations Approaches to word meaning Componential analysis Other primitive-based approaches Prototype theory and The Great Sandwich Controversy Exercises; 3. Semantics II: Sentence meaning Truth and meaning Sentential relations Logical operators Negation Conjunction Disjunction The conditional The biconditional Propositional logic Analytic statements Synthetic statements Predicate logic Predicates and constants Variables Quantifiers Ambiguity and scope Exercises; 4. Pragmatics I: The Cooperative Principle Reprise: Semantics vs. pragmatics The Cooperative Principle The maxims The maxim of Quantity The maxim of Quality The maxim of Relation The maxim of Manner Revisiting Grice’s problem Tests for conversational implicature Implicature and pragmatic theory Conventional implicature The Gricean world view Pragmatics after Grice Explicature Impliciture Neo-Gricean theory Relevance theory Boundary disputes Exercises 5. Pragmatics II: Speech acts Speech acts Performatives </OL&
• Edition: 1st
• Publisher Details: London : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2023
• Extent: 1 online resource (300 pages), illustrations (black and white)
• Subjects: 401.43; Semantics; Pragmatics
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781000841152; 9781000841138
• Related ISBNs: 9780367028800; 9780367028848
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