30.4578, Books: Communication and content: Parikh

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Subject: 30.4578, Books: Communication and content: Parikh

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Date: Mon, 02 Dec 2019 21:08:19
From: Sebastian Nordhoff [Sebastian.Nordhoff at langsci-press.org]
Subject: Communication and content: Parikh

 


Title: Communication and content 
Series Title: Topics at the Grammar-Discourse Interface  

Publication Year: 2019 
Publisher: Language Science Press
	   http://langsci-press.org
	

Book URL: http://langsci-press.org/catalog/book/248 


Author: Prashant Parikh

Electronic: ISBN:  9783961101986 Pages: 416 Price: Europe EURO 0 Comment: Open Access


Abstract:

Communication and content presents a comprehensive and foundational account of
meaning based on new versions of situation theory and game theory. The literal
and implied meanings of an utterance are derived from first principles
assuming little more than the partial rationality of interacting agents. New
analyses of a number of diverse phenomena – a wide notion of ambiguity and
content encompassing phonetics, syntax, semantics, pragmatics, and beyond,
vagueness, convention and conventional meaning, indeterminacy, universality,
the role of truth in communication, semantic change, translation, Frege’s
puzzle of informative identities – are developed. Communication, speaker
meaning, and reference are defined. Frege’s context and compositional
principles are generalized and reconciled in a fixed-point principle, and a
detailed critique of Grice, several aspects of Lewis, and some aspects of the
Romantic conception of meaning are offered. Connections with other branches of
linguistics, especially psycholinguistics, sociolinguistics, historical
linguistics, and natural language processing, are explored.

The book will be of interest to scholars in philosophy, linguistics,
artificial intelligence, and cognitive science. It should also interest
readers in related fields like literary and cultural theory and the social
sciences.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Pragmatics
                     Semantics


Written In: English  (eng)

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