33.307, Books: Naming and Indexicality: Bochner

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Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2022 08:57:23
From: Eleanor Hennerley [ehennerley at cambridge.org]
Subject: Naming and Indexicality: Bochner

 


Title: Naming and Indexicality 
Publication Year: 2021 
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
	   http://www.cambridge.org/linguistics
	

Book URL: https://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/languages-linguistics/semantics-and-pragmatics/naming-and-indexicality?format=HB 


Author: Gregory Bochner

Hardback: ISBN:  9781108428453 Pages:  Price: U.S. $ 110.00
Hardback: ISBN:  9781108428453 Pages:  Price: U.K. £ 85.00
Hardback: ISBN:  9781108428453 Pages:  Price: Europe EURO 99.20


Abstract:

How do words stand for things? Taking ideas from philosophical semantics and
pragmatics, this book offers a unique, detailed, and critical survey of
central debates concerning linguistic reference in the twentieth century. It
then uses the survey to identify and argue for a novel version of current
'two-dimensional' theories of meaning, which generalise the context-dependency
of indexical expressions. The survey highlights the history of tensions
between semantic and epistemic constraints on plausible theories of word
meaning, from analytic philosophy and modern truth-conditional semantics, to
the Referentialist and Externalist revolutions in theories of meaning, to the
more recent reconciliatory ambition of two-dimensionalists. It clearly
introduces technical semantical notions, theses, and arguments, with
easy-to-follow, step-by-step guides. Wide-ranging in its scope, yet offering
an accessible route into literature that can seem complex and technical, this
will be essential reading for advanced students, and academic researchers in
semantics, pragmatics, and philosophy of language.
 



Introduction; 1. Descriptivism; 2. The Referentialist Revolution; 3. Three
Puzzles Arising from the Rigidity Thesis; 4. Varieties of Descriptivist
Responses; 5. Two-Dimensionalism; Conclusion.
 


Linguistic Field(s): Pragmatics
                     Semantics


Written In: English  (eng)

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