Use-conditional meaning : studies in multidimensional semantics / Daniel Gutzmann.
Material type: TextSeries: Oxford studies in semantics and pragmatics ; 6.Publisher: Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, 2015Edition: First editionDescription: xvii, 304 pages : illustrations ; 26 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780198723837 (pbk)
- P 325 .G87 2015
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 282-297) and indexes.
This book seeks to bring together the pragmatic theory of 'meaning as use' with the traditional semantic approach that considers meaning in terms of truth conditions. Daniel Gutzmann adopts core ideas by the philosopher David Kaplan in assuming that the meaning of expressions such as oops or damn can be captured by giving the conditions under which they can be felicitously used. He develops a multidimensional approach to meaning, called hybrid semantics, that incorporates use conditions alongside truth conditions in a unified framework. This new system overcomes the empirical gaps and conceptual problems associated with previous multidimensional systems; it also lessens the burden on the compositional system by shifting restrictions on the combination of use-conditional expressions to the lexicon-semantics interface instead of building them directly into the combinatoric rules.
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