18.2284, Books: Philosophy of Lang/Semantics/Pragmatics: Saka

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Subject: How to Think about Meaning: Saka

 

	
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Title: How to Think about Meaning 
Series Title: Philosophical Studies Series  

Publication Year: 2007 
Publisher: Springer
	   http://www.springer.com
	

Book URL: http://www.springer.com/978-1-4020-5856-1 


Author: Paul Saka

Hardback: ISBN:  9781402058561 Pages: 286 Price: U.S. $ 92.50
Hardback: ISBN:  9781402058561 Pages: 286 Price: U.K. £ 169.00
Hardback: ISBN:  9781402058561 Pages: 286 Price: Europe EURO 119.95


Abstract:

*Develops a cognitivist/mentalist theory of meaning
*Examines the nature of hate speech
*Explores the nature of ambiguity
*Proposes a new solution to semantic paradoxes

According to truth-conditional semantics, to explain the meaning of a
statement is to specify the conditions necessary and sufficient for its
truth. This book develops a more radical mentalist semantics by shifting
the object of semantic inquiry. Classical semantics analyzes an abstract
sentence or utterance such as "Grass is green"; in attitudinal semantics
the object of inquiry is a propositional attitude such as "Speaker
so-and-so thinks grass is green". 



Linguistic Field(s): Philosophy of Language
                     Pragmatics
                     Semantics


Written In: English  (eng)
	
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