16.1909, Books: Discourse Analysis/Semantics: Harris

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Date: 21-Jun-2005
From: Jennifer Lovel < jlovel at continuumbooks.com >
Subject: The Semantics of Science: Harris 

	
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Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2005 16:57:24
From: Jennifer Lovel < jlovel at continuumbooks.com >
Subject: The Semantics of Science: Harris 
 



Title: The Semantics of Science 
Publication Year: 2005 
Publisher: Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd
	   http://www.continuumbooks.com
	
Author: Roy Harris, University of Oxford

Hardback: ISBN: 0826484506 Pages: 240 Price: U.K. £ 75
Paperback: ISBN: 0826478476 Pages: 240 Price: U.K. £ 25


Abstract:

In The Semantics of Science Roy Harris challenges a number of long-accepted
assumptions about science and scientific discourse. According to Harris,
science - like art, religion and history - is one of the supercategories
adopted by modern societies for explaining and justifying certain types of
human activity. Harris argues that these supercategories are themselves
verbal constructs, and thus language-dependent. Each supercategory has its
own semantics. The function of the supercategory is to integrate what would
otherwise be unconnected forms of inquiry, and the result of such
integrations is to draw a certain map of our intellectual world.

Among the questions tackled are: Is mathematics a language? Does the
language of science go beyond the bounds of common sense? And if so, on
what basis?

In a wide-ranging historical survey, Harris rejects the view that the
Greeks or medieval thinkers had any concept of scientific inquiry that
corresponds to our own. He pays close attention to the early work of the
Royal Society and to the twentieth-century semantic crisis caused by
attempting to integrate Einsteinian relativity and quantum mechanics.

This lucidly written book will be of interest to all those engaged in
linguistics, semiotics, philosophy of science and cultural studies.

Roy Harris is Emeritus Professor of General Linguistics at the University
of Oxford and editor of the journal Language and Communication. He is the
author of The Necessity of Artspeak. 



Linguistic Field(s): Discourse Analysis
                     Philosophy of Language
                     Semantics


Written In: English  (ENG)
	
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