Meaning in Linguistic Interaction - Semantics, Metasemantics, Philosophy of Language

This book builds on Kasia Jaszczolt's earlier work on Default Semantics. It draws on data from a variety of languages to show that meaning should be understood as a merger of information coming from different sources and via a variety of interacting processes.

List of contents

• Preface


• List of abbreviations and symbols


• Introduction


• 1: Wrong about meaning


• 2: Interactive composition of meaning


• 3: Defaults in context


• 4: Delimiting the lexicon


• 5: The demise of indexicals: A case study


• Conclusion: Dispelling semantic myths


• References


• Index

About the author

Kasia M. Jaszczolt is Professor of Linguistics and Philosophy of Language at the University of Cambridge and Professorial Fellow of Newnham College, Cambridge. She has published extensively on various topics in semantics, pragmatics, and philosophy of language, and in 2012 was elected a member of the Academia Europaea. Her authored books include Discourse, Beliefs and Intentions (Elsevier, 1999), Semantics and Pragmatics (Longman, 2002), Default Semantics (OUP, 2005), and Representing Time (OUP, 2009); she is also co-editor, with Keith Allan, of The Cambridge Handbook of Pragmatics (CUP, 2012), with Louis de Saussure, of Time: Language, Cognition, and Reality (OUP, 2013), and, with Minyao Huang, of Expressing the Self (OUP, 2017).

Summary

This book builds on Kasia Jaszczolt's earlier work on Default Semantics. It draws on data from a variety of languages to show that meaning should be understood as a merger of information coming from different sources and via a variety of interacting processes.

Product details

• Authors: Kasia M. Jaszczolt, Kasia M. (Professor of Linguistics and Jaszczolt, Kasia M. (Professor of Linguistics and Philosophy of Language Jaszczolt, Jaszczolt Kasia M.
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.10.2018
• EAN: 9780198832133
• ISBN: 978-0-19-883213-3
• No. of pages: 240
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; Philosophy of Language, PHILOSOPHY / Language, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Semantics, Psycholinguistics, Semantics, discourse analysis, stylistics, Psycholinguistics and cognitive linguistics, Semantics & pragmatics