31.3605, Books: Enriched Meanings: Asudeh, Giorgolo

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Date: Mon, 23 Nov 2020 22:39:40
From:  Oxford University Press [HumanitiesMarketing at oup.com]
Subject: Enriched Meanings: Asudeh, Giorgolo

 


Title: Enriched Meanings 
Subtitle: Natural Language Semantics with Category Theory 
Series Title: Oxford Studies in Semantics and Pragmatics  

Publication Year: 2020 
Publisher: Oxford University Press
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Book URL: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/enriched-meanings-9780198847861?utm_source=linguistlist&utm_medium=listserv&utm_campaign=linguistics 


Author: Ash Asudeh
Author: Gianluca Giorgolo

Hardback: ISBN:  9780198847854 Pages: 208 Price: U.S. $ 85.00
Paperback: ISBN:  9780198847861 Pages: 208 Price: U.S. $ 40.00


Abstract:

This book develops a theory of enriched meanings for natural language
interpretation that uses the concept of monads and related ideas from category
theory, a branch of mathematics that has been influential in theoretical
computer science and elsewhere. Certain expressions that exhibit complex
effects at the semantics/pragmatics boundary live in an enriched meaning
space, while others live in a more basic meaning space. These basic meanings
are mapped to enriched meanings only when required compositionally, which
avoids generalizing meanings to the worst case. Ash Asudeh and Gianluca
Giorgolo show that the monadic theory of enriched meanings offers a formally
and computationally well-defined way to tackle important challenges at the
semantics/pragmatics boundary. In particular, they develop innovative monadic
analyses of three phenomena - conventional implicature, substitution puzzles,
and conjunction fallacies - and demonstrate that the compositional properties
of monads model linguistic intuitions about these cases particularly well. The
analyses are accompanied by exercises to aid understanding, and the
computational tools used are available on the book's companion website. The
book also contains background chapters on enriched meanings and category
theory. The volume is interdisciplinary in nature, with insights from
semantics, pragmatics, philosophy of language, psychology, and computer
science, and will appeal to graduate students and researchers from a wide
range of disciplines with an interest in natural language understanding and
representation.
 



Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics
                     Philosophy of Language
                     Pragmatics
                     Psycholinguistics
                     Semantics


Written In: English  (eng)

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