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  • Compositionality, Context and Semantic Values

    Essays in Honour of Ernie Lepore

    Edited by Robert J. Stainton, Christopher Viger ...
    Series Book 85 - Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy
    Are natural languages genuinely compositional? What roles does context play in linguistic communication, and by what means? In particular, does context interfere with the compositional determination of truth conditions? What meanings should theorists assign to sentences if compositionality is to be retained? These are the central questions of this important volume of new philosophical essays in ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

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  • The Logic of Metaphor

    Analogous Parts of Possible Worlds

    by Eric Steinhart ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    Metaphors and Logic Metaphors are among the most vigorous offspring of the creative mind; but their vitality springs from the fact that they are logical organisms in the ecology of l- guage. I aim to use logical techniques to analyze the meanings of metaphors. My goal here is to show how contemporary formal semantics can be extended to handle metaphorical utterances. What distinguishes this work ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Pragmatism in Philosophical Inquiry

    Theoretical Considerations and Case Studies

    by Nicholas Rescher ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    This book showcases the history and theory of pragmatism and its alignment to the sensibilities of contemporary analytic philosophy. It does this not only by describing its mode of operation and explaining its legitimating rationale, but also by substantiating its claims by a series of instructive case studies.The unifying insight of this approach is that the natural criterion of merit within any ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Handbook of Quantifiers in Natural Language

    Edited by Edward Keenan, Denis Paperno ...
    Series Book 90 - Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy
    Covering a strikingly diverse range of languages from 12 linguistic families, this handbook is based on responses to a questionnaire constructed by the editors. Focusing on the formation, distribution and semantic interpretation of quantificational expressions, the book explores 17 languages including German, Italian, Russian, Mandarin Chinese, Malagasy, Hebrew, Pima, Basque, and more. The ... Read more

    $350.09 USD

  • Victor Dudman's Grammar and Semantics

    by J. Curthoys, V. Dudman ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    Victor Dudman's revolutionary English Grammar brings grammar and logic together by conceiving grammar as 'the necessary preliminary to logic'. The focus, for logicians, is the discussion of 'conditionals'; for grammarians it is the concise and accurate explanation of the infamous English modals. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Introduction to Montague Semantics

    by D. R. Dowty, S. Peters, R. Wall ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    In this book we hope to acquaint the reader with the fundamentals of truth conditional model-theoretic semantics, and in particular with a version of this developed by Richard Montague in a series of papers published during the 1960's and early 1970's. In many ways the paper 'The Proper Treatment of Quantification in Ordinary English' (commonly abbreviated PTQ) represents the culmination of ... Read more

    $242.09 USD

  • Pronouns in Embedded Contexts at the Syntax-Semantics Interface

    Edited by Patrick Georg Grosz, Sarah Zobel, Pritty Patel-Grosz ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This volume presents studies on pronouns in embedded contexts, and offers fundamental insights into this central area of research. Much of the recent research on pronouns has shown that embedded environments, such as clausal complements of attitude predicates, provide a window into the nature of pronouns. Pronouns in such environments not only exhibit familiar distinctions such as that between ... Read more

    $98.09 USD

  • Semiotics of International Law

    Trade and Translation

    by Evandro Menezes de Carvalho ...
    Series Book 91 - Law and Philosophy Library
    Language carries more than meanings; language conveys a means of conceiving the world. In this sense, national legal systems expressed through national languages organize the Law based on their own understanding of reality. International Law becomes, in this context, the meeting point where different legal cultures and different views of world intersect.The diversity of languages and legal systems ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Indirect Reports and Pragmatics

    Interdisciplinary Studies

    Edited by Alessandro Capone, Ferenc Kiefer, Franco Lo Piparo ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This volume offers the reader a singular overview of current thinking on indirect reports. The contributors are eminent researchers from the fields of philosophy of language, theoretical linguistics and communication theory, who answer questions on this important issue. This exciting area of controversy has until now mostly been treated from the viewpoint of philosophy. This volume adds the views ... Read more

    $188.09 USD

  • The Meaning of Nouns

    Semantic Theory in Classical and Medieval India

    by M.M. Deshpande ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    Kaun&ddotu;abhatta's Vaiyakarana-bhusana is a massive work on semantic theory written in India in the 17th century. Kaun&ddotu;abhatta belonged to the tradition of Sanskrit grammar and in this work he consolidated the philosophy of language developed in the Paninian tradition of Sanskrit grammar. Kaun&ddotu;abhatta's work takes account of the philosophical debate which occurred in classical and ... Read more

    $143.09 USD

  • Visual and Linguistic Representations of Places of Origin

    An Interdisciplinary Analysis

    by Giulia Mazzeo, Federico Montanari, Paola Donatiello, Maria Pia Pozzato, Margherita Murgiano, Emanuele Frixa, Alessandra Bonazzi, Giulia Nardelli, Enzo D'Armenio ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book is about the representations - both visual and linguistic - which people give of their own places of origin. It examines the drawings of interviewees who were asked to draw their own place of origin on a white A3 sheet, using pencil or colour, according to their choice. If they were born in a place they did not remember because they moved in when they were very small, they could draw the ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Concepts of Meaning

    Framing an Integrated Theory of Linguistic Behavior

    Edited by M. Ulkan, G. Preyer, G. Peter ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    Concepts of Meaning includes contributions from well-known philosophers of language and semanticists. It is a useful collection for students in philosophy of language, semantics and epistemology. This work discusses new research in semantics, theory of truth, philosophy of language and theory of communication from a trans-disciplinary perspective.An integrated theory of linguistic behavior should ... Read more

    $89.09 USD