Meaning and Universal Grammar

Meaning and Universal Grammar
Author: Cliff Goddard
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Total Pages: 355
Release: 2002-01-01
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9027230633

Volume one of a set of studies that is founded on the idea that universal grammar is based on - indeed, inseparable from - meaning. The theoretical framework is the natural semantic metalanguage (NSM) approach originated by Anna Wierzbicka and developed in collaboration with Cliff Goddard.

Meaning and Publicity

Meaning and Publicity
Author: Manning Richard N.
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Total Pages: 254
Release: 2017-12-21
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 3746034507

The papers collected in this volume all discuss the ways and extent to which the determinants of meaning must be public. In the philosophy of language there are currently two main traditions concerning the relationship between meaning and public phenomena. According to one tradition language is public in principle, so that there can be nothing to the meaning of linguistic expressions that cannot be accounted for in terms of the behaviour in context of linguistic subjects. According to the other tradition linguistic meaning is determined by the content of the mental representations that are expressed in overt speech acts. On such views, the properties of the mental are prior to language and linguistic meaning should be explained by appeal to mental concepts. There divergent traditions leave us with a question: Is linguistic meaning to be explained on the basis of a pre-linguistic biological or mental capacity which "goes public " in overt speech, or is it to be explained on the basis of pubic behaviour in context which "goes private "in thought, and which determines the contents of the mental?

Meaning in Communication, Cognition and Reality

Meaning in Communication, Cognition and Reality
Author: Martin Staude
Publisher: Andrews UK Limited
Total Pages: 296
Release: 2015-09-30
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 184540355X

This book presents a general and formal theory of meaning, signs, and language. The theory is presented in a clear and consistent way offering novel and provocative insights into the fundamental structures and processes of communication, cognition, and reality. Key topics include distinctions and categories, the self-contradictory dualism of word vs. object, linguistic meaning monism, relations and processes in the semiotic triangle, conceptual prototypicality and fuzziness, semantic fields and frames, meaning medium vs. forms, as well as activation and co-activation of meanings. In order to illustrate and apply the theory, everyday examples, in particular power and law, are discussed throughout the book. Methodological questions of data collection and analysis are also addressed as they are relevant to the empirical application and verification of the theory. The book combines approaches from systems theory, non-dualism, prototype theory, semantic field theory, speech act theory, and structuralism. Due to its broad and interdisciplinary focus, this book will not only appeal to semioticians, philosophers, and sociologists, but also to linguists, cultural anthropologists, and cognitive scientists.

Edmund Husserl: The web of meaning : language, noema, and subjectivity and intersubjectivity

Edmund Husserl: The web of meaning : language, noema, and subjectivity and intersubjectivity
Author: Rudolf Bernet
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 400
Release: 2005
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9780415289603

This collection makes available, in one place, the very best essays on the founding father of phenomenology, reprinting key writings on Husserl's thought from the past seventy years. It draws together a range of writings, many otherwise inaccessible, that have been recognized as seminal contributions not only to an understanding of this great philosopher but also to the development of his phenomenology. The four volumes are arranged as follows: Volume I Classic essays from Husserl's assistants, students and earlier interlocutors. Including a selection of papers from such figures as Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty, Sartre, Ricoeur and Levinas. Volume II Classic commentaries on Husserl's published works. "Covering the Logical Investigations," " Ideas I," " Phenomenology of Internal Time Consciousness," "" ""and" Formal and Transcendental Logic." Volumes III and IV Papers concentrating on particular aspects of Husserl's theory including: Husserl's account of mathematics and logic, his theory of science, the nature of phenomenological reduction, his account of perception and language, the theory of space and time, his phenomenology of imagination and empathy, the concept of the life-world and his epistemology.

Metaphysics, Mathematics, and Meaning

Metaphysics, Mathematics, and Meaning
Author: Nathan U. Salmon
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 458
Release: 2005
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9780199281763

'Metaphysics, Mathematics and Meaning' brings together Nathan Salmon's influential papers on topics in the metaphysics of existence, non-existence and fiction. He includes a previously unpublished essay and helpful new introduction to orient the reader.

Mind, Meaning and Scientific Explanation

Mind, Meaning and Scientific Explanation
Author: John-Michael Kuczynski
Publisher: John-Michael Kuczynski
Total Pages: 1003
Release:
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN:

A comprehensive treatise on analytic philosophy, with special attention paid to the theoretical basis of psychopathology.

Contrastive Pragmatics

Contrastive Pragmatics
Author: Karin Aijmer
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Total Pages: 190
Release: 2011-06-09
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9027286647

We have recently seen a broadening of pragmatics to new areas and to the study of more than one language. This is illustrated by the present volume on Contrastive Pragmatics which brings together a number of articles originally presented at the 10th International Pragmatics Conference in Göteborg in 2007. The contributions deal with pragmatic phenomena such as speech acts, discourse markers and modality in different language pairs using theoretical approaches such as politeness theory, Conversation Analysis, Appraisal Theory, grammaticalization and cultural textology. Also discourse practices and genres may differ across cultures as illustrated by the study of TV news shows in different countries. Contrastive pragmatics also includes the comparative study of pragmatic phenomena from a foreign language perspective, a new area with implications for language teaching and intercultural communication. The contributions to this volume were originally published in Languages in Contrast 9:1 (2009).

Perspectives on Practice and Meaning in Mathematics and Science Classrooms

Perspectives on Practice and Meaning in Mathematics and Science Classrooms
Author: D. Clarke
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 361
Release: 2006-04-11
Genre: Education
ISBN: 0306472287

This is a variegated picture of science and mathematics classrooms that challenges a research tradition that converges on the truth. The reader is surrounded with different images of the classroom and will find his beliefs confirmed or challenged. The book is for educational researchers, research students, and practitioners with an interest in optimizing the effectiveness of classrooms as environments for learning.