Meaning in Linguistic Interaction: Semantics, Metasemantics, Philosophy of Langu

Description: Meaning in Linguistic Interaction by Kasia M. Jaszczolt This book builds on Kasia Jaszczolts earlier work on Default Semantics. It draws on data from a variety of languages to show that meaning should be understood as a merger of information coming from different sources and via a variety of interacting processes. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description This book offers a semantic and metasemantic inquiry into the representation of meaning in linguistic interaction. Kasia Jaszczolts view represents the most radical stance on meaning to be found in the contextualist tradition and thereby the most radical take on the semantics/pragmatics boundary. It allows for the selection of the cognitively plausible object of enquiry without being constrained by such distinctions as what is said/what is implicated or what islinguistic and what is extralinguistic. She argues that this is the only promising stance on meaning. The analysis transcends the traditional distinctions drawn, and traditional questions posed, inpost-Gricean pragmatics and philosophy of language. It heavily relies on the dynamic construction of meaning in discourse, using truth conditions as a tool but at the same time conforming to pragmatic compositionality ? whereby aspects of meaning that enter this composition have very different provenance.Meaning in Linguistic Interaction builds on the authors earlier work on Default Semantics and adds new arguments in favour of radical contextualism as well asnovel applications, focusing on the role of salience, the flexibility of word meaning, the literal/nonliteral distinction, and the dynamic nature of a character, as well as offering an entirely new perspective onthe indexical/nonindexical distinction. It contains a state-of-the-art discussion of the semantics/pragmatics boundary disputes, focusing on varieties of semantic minimalism and contextualism and on the limitations of an indexicalism. Jaszczolts work is illustrated with examples from a variety of languages and offers some formal representations of meaning in the metalanguage of Default Semantics. Author Biography Kasia M. Jaszczolt is Professor of Linguistics and Philosophy of Language at the University of Cambridge and Professorial Fellow of Newnham College, Cambridge. She has published extensively on various topics in semantics, pragmatics, and philosophy of language, and in 2012 was elected a member of the Academia Europaea. Her authored books include Discourse, Beliefs and Intentions (Elsevier, 1999), Semantics and Pragmatics (Longman, 2002),Default Semantics (OUP, 2005), and Representing Time (OUP, 2009); she is also co-editor, with Keith Allan, of The Cambridge Handbook of Pragmatics (CUP, 2012), with Louis de Saussure, of Time: Language, Cognition, and Reality(OUP, 2013), and, with Minyao Huang, of Expressing the Self (OUP, 2017). Table of Contents PrefaceList of abbreviations and symbolsIntroduction1: Wrong about meaning2: Interactive composition of meaning3: Defaults in context4: Delimiting the lexicon5: The demise of indexicals: A case studyConclusion: Dispelling semantic mythsReferencesIndex Long Description This book offers a semantic and metasemantic inquiry into the representation of meaning in linguistic interaction. Kasia Jaszczolts view represents the most radical stance on meaning to be found in the contextualist tradition and thereby the most radical take on the semantics/pragmatics boundary. It allows for the selection of the cognitively plausible object of enquiry without being constrained by such distinctions as what is said/what is implicated or what islinguistic and what is extralinguistic. She argues that this is the only promising stance on meaning. The analysis transcends the traditional distinctions drawn, and traditional questions posed, in post-Gricean pragmatics and philosophy of language. It heavily relies on the dynamic construction ofmeaning in discourse, using truth conditions as a tool but at the same time conforming to pragmatic compositionality ? whereby aspects of meaning that enter this composition have very different provenance.Meaning in Linguistic Interaction builds on the authors earlier work on Default Semantics and adds new arguments in favour of radical contextualism as well as novel applications, focusing on the role of salience, the flexibility of word meaning, the literal/nonliteral distinction, and the dynamic nature of a character, as well as offering an entirely new perspective on the indexical/nonindexical distinction. It contains a state-of-the-art discussion of the semantics/pragmaticsboundary disputes, focusing on varieties of semantic minimalism and contextualism and on the limitations of an indexicalism. Jaszczolts work is illustrated with examples from a variety of languages and offers some formal representations of meaning in the metalanguage of Default Semantics. Feature Adopts an interdisciplinary approach that will appeal to linguists, philosophers, and cognitive scientistsProposes a new take on the semantics/pragmatics boundaryProvides extensive examples from a variety of languages Details ISBN0198832133 Author Kasia M. Jaszczolt Pages 240 Publisher Oxford University Press Year 2018 ISBN-10 0198832133 ISBN-13 9780198832133 Format Paperback Imprint Oxford University Press Subtitle Semantics, Metasemantics, Philosophy of Language Place of Publication Oxford Country of Publication United Kingdom DEWEY 401.43 Position Professor of Linguistics and Philosophy of Language Affiliation Professor of Linguistics and Philosophy of Language, University of Cambridge Short Title Meaning in Linguistic Interaction Language English Publication Date 2018-10-30 UK Release Date 2018-10-30 NZ Release Date 2018-10-30 Alternative 9780199602469 Audience Tertiary & Higher Education AU Release Date 2018-11-07 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:120051154;

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