Author : Daniel Altshuler
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 609 pages
File Size : 26,68 MB
Release : 2022-10-31
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1108487297
With input from a team of scholars, this book brings together linguistics and philosophy, empowering new conversations in the process.
Author : Daniel Altshuler
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 609 pages
File Size : 37,6 MB
Release : 2022-10-13
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1108804535
Linguistics and philosophy, while being two closely-related fields, are often approached with very different methodologies and frameworks. Bringing together a team of interdisciplinary scholars, this pioneering book provides examples of how conversations between the two disciplines can lead to exciting developments in both fields, from both a historical and a current perspective. It identifies a number of key phenomena at the cutting edge of research within both fields, such as reporting and ascribing, describing and referring, narrating and structuring, locating in time and space, typologizing and ontologizing, determining and questioning, arguing and rejecting, and implying and (pre-)supposing. Each chapter takes on a phenomena and explores it through a set of questions which are posed and answered at the outset of each chapter. An accessible and engaging resource, it is essential reading for researchers and students in both disciplines, and will empower exciting and illuminating conversations for years to come.
Author : Danny D. Steinberg
Publisher : CUP Archive
Page : 628 pages
File Size : 40,76 MB
Release : 1971-10-31
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780521078221
Includes contributions by R.M.W. Dixon - A method of semantic description; K.L. Hale - A note on a Walbiri tradition of antonymy, both listed separetely in bibliography.
Author : Siobhan Chapman
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 10,22 MB
Release : 2009-01-19
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0748631429
This book offers introductory entries on 80 ideas that have shaped the study of language up to the present day. Entries are written by experts in the fields of linguistics and the philosophy of language to reflect the full range of approaches and modes of thought. Each entry includes a brief description of the idea, an account of its development, and its impact on the field of language study. The book is written in an accessible style with clear descriptions of technical terms, guides to further reading, and extensive cross-referencing between entries. A useful additional feature of this book is that it is cross-referenced throughout with Key Thinkers in Linguistics and the Philosophy of Language (Edinburgh, 2005), revealing significant connections and continuities in the two related disciplines. Ideas covered range from Sense Data, Artificial Intelligence, and Logic, through Generative Semantics, Cognitivism, and Conversation Analysis, to Political Correctness, Deconstruction, and Corpora.
Author : Umberto Eco
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 42,65 MB
Release : 1986-07-22
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780253203984
"Eco wittily and enchantingly develops themes often touched on in his previous works, but he delves deeper into their complex nature . . . this collection can be read with pleasure by those unversed in semiotic theory." —Times Literary Supplement
Author : Barbara B.H. Partee
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 692 pages
File Size : 32,4 MB
Release : 1990-04-30
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027722454
Elementary set theory accustoms the students to mathematical abstraction, includes the standard constructions of relations, functions, and orderings, and leads to a discussion of the various orders of infinity. The material on logic covers not only the standard statement logic and first-order predicate logic but includes an introduction to formal systems, axiomatization, and model theory. The section on algebra is presented with an emphasis on lattices as well as Boolean and Heyting algebras. Background for recent research in natural language semantics includes sections on lambda-abstraction and generalized quantifiers. Chapters on automata theory and formal languages contain a discussion of languages between context-free and context-sensitive and form the background for much current work in syntactic theory and computational linguistics. The many exercises not only reinforce basic skills but offer an entry to linguistic applications of mathematical concepts. For upper-level undergraduate students and graduate students in theoretical linguistics, computer-science students with interests in computational linguistics, logic programming and artificial intelligence, mathematicians and logicians with interests in linguistics and the semantics of natural language.
Author : Henk Zeevat
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 45,75 MB
Release : 2014-01-30
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9004252908
An utterance is normally produced by a speaker in linear time and the hearer normally correctly identifies the speaker intention in linear time and incrementally. This is hard to understand in a standard competence grammar since languages are highly ambiguous and context-free parsing is not linear. Deterministic utterance generation from intention and n-best Bayesian interpretation, based on the production grammar and the prior probabilities that need to be assumed for other perception do much better. The proposed model uses symbolic grammar and derives symbolic semantic representations, but treats interpretation as just another form of perception. Removing interpretation from grammar is not only empirically motivated, but also makes linguistics a much more feasible enterprise. The importance of Henk Zeevat's new monograph cannot be overstated. Its combination of breadth, formal rigor, and originality is unparalleled in work on the form-meaning interface in human language...Zeevat's is the first proposal which provides a computationally feasible integrated treatment of production and comprehension for pragmatics, semantics, syntax, and even phonology. I recommend it to anyone who combines interests in language, logic, and computation with a sense of adventure. David Beaver, University of Texas at Austin
Author : Ufuk Özen Baykent
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 115 pages
File Size : 46,22 MB
Release : 2016-08-17
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1443898201
Language is what we all share and is our common concern. What is the nature of language? How is language related to the world? How is communication possible via language? What is the impact of language on our reasoning and thinking? Many people are unaware that misunderstandings and conflicts during communication occur as a result of the way we use language. This book introduces the central issues in the history of philosophical investigations about the concept of language. Topics are structured with reference to the world’s foremost philosophers of language. The book will encourage the reader to explore the depths of the concept of language and will raise an awareness of this distinctive human capacity.
Author : Ryan M. Nefdt
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 38,32 MB
Release : 2024-05-31
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1316514250
Covering a wide range of fields and theoretical perspectives, this book provides a novel philosophical account of theoretical linguistics.
Author : Siobhan Chapman
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 24,59 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780195187687
A reference guide to the work of figures who have played an important role in the development of ideas about language. It includes 80 entries on individual thinkers in the Western tradition, ranging from antiquity to the present day, chosen because of their impact on the description or theory of language.
