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.

Table des matières

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

A propos de l'auteur

edited by Umberto Eco, Marco Santambrogio, Patrizia Violi

Résumé

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

Détails du produit

• Collaboration: Umberto Eco (Editeur), Marco Santambrogio (Editeur), Patrizia Violi (Editeur)
• Edition: Indiana University Press
• Langues: Anglais
• Format d'édition: Livre de poche
• Sortie: 01.12.1988
• EAN: 9780253204967
• ISBN: 978-0-253-20496-7
• Pages: 248
• Dimensions: 156 mm x 234 mm x 13 mm
• Poids: 383 g
• Thèmes: Advances in Semiotics; Advances in Semiotics (Paperba; Indiana University Press (IPS)
• Catégorie: Sciences humaines, art, musique > Linguistique et littérature > Linguistique générale et comparée