13.39, Books: Philosophy of Language/Semantics

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Date:  Tue, 8 Jan 2002 09:13:04 -0800
From:  Christine Sosa <sosa at csli.stanford.edu>
Subject:  Philosophy of Lang/Semantics: ARISTOTE ET LE LEXIQUE DE L'ESPACE

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Date:  Tue, 8 Jan 2002 09:13:04 -0800
From:  Christine Sosa <sosa at csli.stanford.edu>
Subject:  Philosophy of Lang/Semantics: ARISTOTE ET LE LEXIQUE DE L'ESPACE

CSLI Publications is pleased to announce the availability of:

ARISTOTE ET LE LEXIQUE DE L'ESPACE: RENCONTRES ENTRE LA PHYSIQUE
GRECQUE ET LA LINGUISTIQUE COGNITIVE: Claude Vandeloise (Louisiana
State University); paper ISBN: 1-57586-250-6, $30.00, 325 pages, text
in French. CSLI Publications 2001.
http://cslipublications.stanford.edu, email: pubs at csli.stanford.edu.

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Book description (in English):
With the present monograph, Aristote et le Lexique de l'Espace,
Vandeloise both continues his exploration of this vital question and
also initiates a broader, more basic investigation of thought and
meaning in the spatial domain.  This innovative work is novel in its
conception and elegant in its execution.  Three main concerns are
productively brought together in a mutually revelatory fashion:
besides French locatives, these include the tacit naive physics
presupposed by the meanings of linguistic elements, as well as the
building blocks and intrinsic organization of our conceptualizations
in the physical realm.  Perhaps surprisingly, and certainly
provocatively, it is in the physics of Aristotle and his commentators
that Vandeloise sees a correspondence between a representation of the
physical world and the conceptual system underlying the linguistic
description of space.

Book description (in French):
Ce livre étudie le vocabulaire spatial dans la Physique d'Aristote et
dans les Commentaires qu'elle a suscités jusqu'au sixième siècle
après J.C. chez Porphyre, Simplicius et Philopon. La physique naïve
développée dans leur oeuvre éclaire l'étude des termes spatiaux dans
les langues modernes. Aristote se révèle ainsi le premier lexicologue
de l'espace.

La première partie du livre est une longue expérience mentale qui
conduit d'un monde aussi élémentaire que celui de Parménide à un
monde suffisamment sophistiqué pour nécessiter l'usage de tout le
vocabulaire spatial du français. A chaque étape, l'enrichissement du
monde est mis en parallèle avec celui du vocabulaire. Dans la seconde
partie, les résultats de cette expérience sont mis à profit dans
trois analyses sémantiques détaillées consacrées au nom place, à la
préposition dans et au verbe toucher.

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