16.387, Books: Semantics: Portner/ Cappelen, Lepore

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Subject: 16.387, Books: Semantics: Portner/ Cappelen, Lepore

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1)
Date: 08-Feb-2005
From: Matthew Glidden < bmktemp at bos.blackwellpublishing.com >
Subject: What is Meaning?: Portner

2)
Date: 08-Feb-2005
From: Matthew Glidden < bmktemp at bos.blackwellpublishing.com >
Subject: Insensitive Semantics: Cappelen, Lepore

	
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Date: Wed, 09 Feb 2005 10:42:39
From: Matthew Glidden < bmktemp at bos.blackwellpublishing.com >
Subject: What is Meaning?: Portner




Title: What is Meaning?
Subtitle: Fundamentals of Formal Semantics
Series Title: Fundamentals of Linguistics

Publication Year: 2005
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing
	   http://www.blackwellpublishing.com
	

Book URL: http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/1405109181


Author: Paul H. Portner, Georgetown University

Hardback: ISBN: 1405109173 Pages: 248 Price: U.S. $ 64.95
Paperback: ISBN: 1405109181 Pages: 248 Price: U.S. $ 29.95


Abstract:

What is Meaning? Fundamentals of Formal Semantics is a concise introduction
to the field of semantics as it is actually practiced. Through simple
examples, pictures, and metaphors, Paul Portner presents the field's key
ideas about how language works.

- Explains the fundamental ideas and some of the most significant results
of modern semantic theory.

- Combines foundational discussion with simplified analyses of complex
phenomena to provide readers with a sense of the fascination to be found in
the details of the human language.

- Includes exercises and thought-provoking questions to facilitate learning.



Linguistic Field(s): Semantics


Written In: English  (ENG)
	
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Date: Wed, 09 Feb 2005 10:42:43
From: Matthew Glidden < bmktemp at bos.blackwellpublishing.com >
Subject: Insensitive Semantics: Cappelen, Lepore

	


Title: Insensitive Semantics
Subtitle: A Defense of Semantic Minimalism and Speech Act Pluralism
Publication Year: 2005
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing
	   http://www.blackwellpublishing.com
	

Book URL: http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/1405126752


Author: Herman Cappelen, Vassar College
Author: Ernie Lepore, Rutgers University

Hardback: ISBN: 1405126744 Pages: 232 Price: U.S. $ 64.95
Paperback: ISBN: 1405126752 Pages: 232 Price: U.S. $ 29.95


Abstract:

Insensitive Semantics is an overview of and contribution to the debates
about how to accommodate context sensitivity within a theory of human
communication, investigating the effects of context on communicative
interaction and, as a corollary, what a context of utterance is and what it
is to be in one.

- Provides detailed and wide-ranging overviews of the central positions and
arguments surrounding contextualism

- Addresses broad and varied aspects of the distinction between the
semantic and non-semantic content of language

- Defends a distinctive and explanatorily powerful combination of semantic
minimalism and speech act pluralism

- Confronts core problems which not only run to the heart of philosophy of
language and linguistics, but which arise in epistemology, metaphysics, and
moral philosophy as well



Linguistic Field(s): Linguistic Theories
                     Philosophy of Language
                     Pragmatics
                     Semantics


Written In: English  (ENG)
	
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