Meaning and Mental Representation

This is an important collection of essays by well-known scholars debating the question of logical versus psychologically based interpretations of language.

List of contents

Introduction: Marco Santambrogio and Patrizia Violi

On the Circumstantial Relation between Meaning and Content: Jon Barwise

On Truth. A Fiction: Umberto Eco

Quantification, Roles and Domains: Gilles Fauconnier

Conceptual Semantics: Ray Jackendoff

How Is Meaning Mentally Represented?: Philip N. Johnson-Laird

Cognitive Semantics: George Lakoff

The Analysis of Nominal Compounds: Wendy G. Lehnert

Knowledge Representation in People and Machines: Roger Schank and Alex Kass

Identity in Intensional Logic: Subjective Semantics: Bas Van Fraassen

Reference and Its Role in Computational Models of Mental Representation: Yorick Wilks

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edited by Umberto Eco, Marco Santambrogio, Patrizia Violi

Summary

A collection of essays, which debate the questions of logical versus psychologically-based interpretations of language.

Product details

• Assisted by: Umberto Eco (Editor), Marco Santambrogio (Editor), Patrizia Violi (Editor)
• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.12.1988
• EAN: 9780253204967
• ISBN: 978-0-253-20496-7
• No. of pages: 248
• Dimensions: 156 mm x 234 mm x 13 mm
• Weight: 383 g
• Series: Advances in Semiotics; Advances in Semiotics (Paperba; Indiana University Press (IPS)
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics