From Perception to Communication - A Theory of Types for Action and Meaning

This book characterizes a notion of type that covers both linguistic and non-linguistic action, and lays the foundations for a theory of action based on a Theory of Types with Records (TTR). The theory of language based on action developed in the book allows the adoption of a perspective on linguistic content centred on interaction in dialogue.

List of contents

• General preface


• Acknowledgements


• How to read this book


• Introduction


• Part I: From perception and action to grammar


• 1: From perception to intensionality


• 2: From event perception and action to information states and information exchange


• 3: Grammar in a theory of action


• Part II: Towards a dialogical view of semantics


• 4: Reference and mental states


• 5: Frames and descriptions


• 6: Modality and intensionality without possible worlds


• 7: Witness-based quantification


• 8: Type-based underspecification


• Conclusion


• Appendix: TTR


• References


• Symbols and notations used


• Named types


• Name index


• Subject index

About the author

Robin Cooper is Professor Emeritus and Senior Researcher at the University of Gothenburg, where he was previously Professor of Computational Linguistics. He is currently conducting research within the Centre for Linguistic Theory and Studies in Probability (CLASP) at Gothenburg. He is a Fellow of the British Academy and the Royal Society of Arts and Sciences in Gothenburg, and a member of the Academia Europaea.

Summary

This book characterizes a notion of type that covers both linguistic and non-linguistic action, and lays the foundations for a theory of action based on a Theory of Types with Records (TTR). The theory of language based on action developed in the book allows the adoption of a perspective on linguistic content centred on interaction in dialogue.

Product details

• Authors: Robin Cooper, Robin (Professor Emeritus and Senior Resea Cooper, Cooper Robin
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 23.03.2023
• EAN: 9780192871312
• ISBN: 978-0-19-287131-2
• No. of pages: 464
• Series: Oxford Studies in Semantics and Pragmatics
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Psychology > Theoretical psychology; Philosophy of Language, PHILOSOPHY / Language, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Semantics, PSYCHOLOGY / Cognitive Psychology & Cognition, Cognition & cognitive psychology, Cognition and cognitive psychology, Semantics, discourse analysis, stylistics, Semantics, discourse analysis, etc