Communication and Content - Couverture souple

Parikh, Prashant

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 101329470X ISBN 13 : 9781013294709

Editeur : Saint Philip Street Press, 2020

Synopsis

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.

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Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Saint Philip Street Press
• Date d'édition: 2020
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 101329470X
• ISBN 13: 9781013294709
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 416
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible