Open Compositionality - Toward a New Methodology of Language

Open Compositionality: Towards a Methodology of Language offers a fresh view into human languages as supermodular, highly interactive cognitive capacities allowing for human unique thought and communication. It is a novel account of semantics as decision-making in tandem with the cognition first methodology.

List of contents

Preface
1. Two Views of Language
2. The Closed View and Strong Compositionality
3. The Failure of Strong Compositionality
4. Open Compositionality and the Cognition First Methodology
5. Lexical Processing Architecture and Substitution Failure
6. Decoupled Representations and Empty Names
7. Moral Discourse, Moral Cognition and the Language Analogy
Bibliography

About the author

Eduardo García Ramírez is research fellow at the Institute for Philosophical Research of the National Autonomous University of Mexico.

Summary

Open Compositionality: Towards a Methodology of Language offers a fresh view into human languages as supermodular, highly interactive cognitive capacities allowing for human unique thought and communication. It is a novel account of semantics as decision-making in tandem with the cognition first methodology.

Product details

• Authors: Eduardo Garcia-Ramirez, Eduardo García-Ramírez, Garcia-Ramirez Eduardo
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.09.2019
• EAN: 9781498562720
• ISBN: 978-1-4985-6272-0
• No. of pages: 242
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; Philosophy of Language, PHILOSOPHY / Language, Psycholinguistics, Psycholinguistics and cognitive linguistics