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With language we command, assert, query, emote, insult, and inspire. Language has meaning, and semantics is the science of linguistic meaning. But what exactly is "meaning"? What is the exact target of semantic theory? This volume explores these questions, in the light of the current state of the art in natural language semantics.
List of contents
- 0: Derek Ball and Brian Rabern: Introduction to the science of meaning
- 1: Pauline Jacobson: What is - or, for that matter, isn't - 'experimental' semantics?
- 2: Wesley H. Holliday and Thomas F. Icard, III: Axiomatization in the meaning sciences
- 3: Robert Stalnaker: David Lewis on context
- 4: François Recanati: From meaning to content
- 5: Bryan Pickel, Brian Rabern, and Josh Dever: Reviving the parameter revolution in semantics
- 6: Barbara Partee: Changing notions of linguistic competence in the history of formal semantics
- 7: Michael Glanzberg: Lexical meaning, concepts, and the metasemantics of predicates
- 8: Kathrin Glüer: Interpretation and the interpreter
- 9: Inés Crespo, Hadil Karawani, and Frank Veltman: Expressing expectations
- 10: Thomas Ede Zimmermann: Fregean compositionality
- 11: Paul Pietroski: Semantic typology and composition
- 12: Seth Yalcin: Semantics as model-based science
- 13: Wolfgang Schwarz: Semantic possibility
- 14: Derek Ball: Semantics as measurement
About the author
Derek Ball is a lecturer in philosophy at the University of St Andrews. His professional interests include the philosophy of language and philosophy of mind.
Brian Rabern is a lecturer in philosophy at the University of Edinburgh. His main research interests centre around philosophy of language, logic, and formal semantics.
Summary
With language we command, assert, query, emote, insult, and inspire. Language has meaning, and semantics is the science of linguistic meaning. But what exactly is “meaning”? What is the exact target of semantic theory? This volume explores these questions, in the light of the current state of the art in natural language semantics.
