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Beyond Semantics and Pragmatics

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The study of meaning in language embraces a diverse range of problems and methods. Philosophers think through the relationship between language and the world; linguists document speakers' knowledge of meaning; psychologists investigate the mechanisms of understanding and production. Up through the early 2000s, these investigations were generally compartmentalized: indeed, researchers often regarded both the subject-matter and the methods of other disciplines with skepticism. Since then, however, there has been a sea change in the field, enabling researchers increasingly to synthesize the perspectives of philosophy, linguistics and psychology and to energize all the fields with rich new intellectual perspectives that facilitate meaningful interchange. The time is right for a broader exploration and reflection on the status and problems of semantics as an interdisciplinary enterprise, in light of a decade of challenging and successful research in this area. Taking as its starting-point Lepore and Stone's 2014 book Imagination and Convention, this volume aims to reconcile different methodological perspectives while refocusing semanticists on new problems where integrative work will find the broadest and most receptive audience.

Author Biography:

Gerhard Preyer is Professor of Sociology at the Goethe-Universität, Frankfurt am Main. he is editor of the journal Protosociology, and of several books, including Contextualism in Philosophy (with Georg Peter, 2005), Logical Form and Language (2002, with Georg Peter), Context-Sensitivity and Semantic Minimalism (2007, with Georg Peter), and Donald Davidson on Truth, Meaning, and the Mental (2012), all published by Oxford University Press.
Release date Australia
August 30th, 2018
Audience
  • Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Contributor
  • Edited by Gerhard Preyer
Pages
330
Dimensions
164x240x25
ISBN-13
9780198791492
Product ID
28125508

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