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From: Julia Ulrich < julia.ulrich at degruyter.com >
Subject: Handlungstheoretische Semantik: Meggle
 

	
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From: Julia Ulrich [julia.ulrich at degruyter.com]
Subject: Handlungstheoretische Semantik: Meggle

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Title: Handlungstheoretische Semantik 
Subtitle: [Action-theoretic Semantics] 
Publication Year: 2010 
Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton
	   http://www.degruyter.com/mouton
	

Book URL: http://www.degruyter.de/cont/fb/ph/detailEn.cfm?id=IS-9783110226829-1 


Author: Georg Meggle

Electronic: ISBN:  9783110226836 Pages: 294 Price: Europe EURO 59.95
Hardback: ISBN:  9783110226829 Pages: 294 Price: Europe EURO 59.95


Abstract:

There is a long tradition in the philosophy of explaining the concept of
"meaning" in terms of reference of the thing that our sign signifies. At
the latest since Wittgenstein, "meaning" has been explained with the
formula "meaning=use," where one distinguishes between how one uses
something and for what purpose one uses something. The author shows that
this dichotomy between the "how" and the "purpose" of use can be unified.
He does this by first investigating the concept of the purpose of use and
then reconstructs the "use-how" by means of the concept of "convention."
Finally, the author demonstrates how to traditional referential semantics
can be justified on the basis of the theory developed here. 



Linguistic Field(s): History of Linguistics
                     Semantics
                     Applied Linguistics
                     Communications
                     Language and Social Interaction


Written In: German, Standard  (deu)
	
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