{"product_id":"semantics-pragmatics-philosophy-a-journey-through-meaning-paperback-9781108731041","title":"Semantics, Pragmatics, Philosophy; A Journey through Meaning (Paperback \/ softback) 9781108731041","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eSemantics, Pragmatics, Philosophy\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eA Journey through Meaning\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eCombining semantics, pragmatics, and philosophy, this is a guide on how to think about meaning like a linguist and philosopher.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eKasia M. Jaszczolt (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781108731041, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 16 March 2023\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e438 pages\u003cbr\u003e24.5 x 17.1 x 2 cm, 0.85 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSemantics and pragmatics – the study of meaning, and meaning in context, respectively – are two fundamental areas of linguistics, and as such are crucial to our understanding of how meaning is created. However, their theoretical ideas are often introduced without making clear connections between views, theories, and problems. This pioneering volume is both a textbook and a research guide, taking the reader on a journey through language and ultimately enabling them to think about meaning as linguists and philosophers would. Assuming no prior knowledge of linguistics, it introduces semantics, pragmatics, and the philosophy of language, showing how all three fields can address the 'big questions' that run through the study of meaning. It covers key theories and approaches, while also enabling increasingly more sophisticated questions about the interconnected aspects of meaning, with the end goal of preparing the reader to make their own, original contributions to ideas about meaning.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePreface and tips on how to read this book\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgements\u003cbr\u003e List of abbreviations and symbols\u003cbr\u003e Stage 1. Introduction: meaning – what it is and where to find it: 1.1 How (not) to study meaning\u003cbr\u003e 1.2 Semantics, pragmatics, and philosophy (and why they are best done together)\u003cbr\u003e 1.3 Proposition: a flexible unit for studying meaning?\u003cbr\u003e 1.4 Meaning and its correlates\u003cbr\u003e Stage 2. word meaning and concepts: 2.1 Harnessing word meaning\u003cbr\u003e 2.2 The 'concept' commotion\u003cbr\u003e 2.3 Language and thought\u003cbr\u003e 2.4 Lexicon and pragmatics\u003cbr\u003e 2.5 The role of reference\u003cbr\u003e Stage 3. Composing sentence meaning: tools and their purpose: 3.1 Truth in service of meaning: truth conditions and truth-value judgements\u003cbr\u003e 3.2 The metalanguage for the logical form\u003cbr\u003e 3.3 Possible worlds and models\u003cbr\u003e 3.4 Semantic composition and semantic types\u003cbr\u003e 3.5 Type-theoretic metalanguage and lambda abstraction\u003cbr\u003e 3.6 Formal tools and cognitive reality\u003cbr\u003e Stage 4. Operations on sentences: 4.1 Sentential connectives and propositional logic\u003cbr\u003e 4.2 Conjunction\u003cbr\u003e 4.3 Disjunction\u003cbr\u003e 4.4 Conditional and biconditional\u003cbr\u003e 4.5 Negation\u003cbr\u003e 4.6 Linguistic diversity: snakes and ladders, cluedo, and monopoly\u003cbr\u003e Stage 5. Inside the sentence: 5.1 Limitations of the metalanguage\u003cbr\u003e 5.2 Quantification\u003cbr\u003e 5.3 Representing time\u003cbr\u003e 5.4 Modality\u003cbr\u003e 5.5 Propositional attitude reports\u003cbr\u003e 5.6 Interim conclusions: semantic tools for formal cognitive representations?\u003cbr\u003e Stage 6. Conveying information: 6.1 From sentences to discourses: dynamic semantics for dynamic meaning\u003cbr\u003e 6.2 Referring and its tools\u003cbr\u003e 6.3 Organizing information in discourse\u003cbr\u003e Stage 7. Utterance meaning, or what lurks under the surface: 7.1 Saying, implicating and inferring\u003cbr\u003e 7.2. Truth-conditional vs. non-truth-conditional, semantic vs. pragmatic: what to include and what to leave out\u003cbr\u003e 7.3 Keeping semantics and pragmatics apart\u003cbr\u003e Stage 8. Meaning in service of its makers: 8.1 Who needs literal meanings?\u003cbr\u003e 8.2 What makes a metaphor\u003cbr\u003e 8.3. Speech and action\u003cbr\u003e 8.4 At a crossroads with ethical and social debates\u003cbr\u003e Stage 9. Conclusion: the future of meaning?\u003cbr\u003e Index.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Semantics, discourse analysis, etc [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Semantics, discourse analysis, etc\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Semantics,%20discourse%20analysis,%20etc%20%5BCFG%5D%22\"\u003eCFG\u003c\/a\u003e], Philosophy of language [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Philosophy of language\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Philosophy%20of%20language%20%5BCFA%5D%22\"\u003eCFA\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46266402570520,"sku":"9781108731041","price":27.19,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/products\/9781108731041i_ab073b1b-b2a3-4716-9938-7dd4203697f5.jpg?v=1696718221","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/semantics-pragmatics-philosophy-a-journey-through-meaning-paperback-9781108731041","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}