Synopses & Reviews
This is an important collection of original essays by well-known scholars debating the question of logical versus psychologically-based interpretations of language. The volume seeks to bridge the gap between the differing traditions of European semiotics and American philosophy of language on the issue of linguistic meaning and mental representation.
Synopsis
This is an important collection of essays by well-known scholars debating the question of logical versus psychologically based interpretations of language.
Synopsis
"... an excellent collection... " --Journal of Language and Social Psychology
An important collection of original essays by well-known scholars debating the questions of logical versus psychologically-based interpretations of language.
Table of Contents
Introduction: Marco Santambrogio and Patrizia Violi
On the Circumstantial Relation between Meaning and Content: Jon Barwise
On Truth. A Fiction: Umberto Eco
Quantification, Roles and Domains: Gilles Fauconnier
Conceptual Semantics: Ray Jackendoff
How Is Meaning Mentally Represented?: Philip N. Johnson-Laird
Cognitive Semantics: George Lakoff
The Analysis of Nominal Compounds: Wendy G. Lehnert
Knowledge Representation in People and Machines: Roger Schank and Alex Kass
Identity in Intensional Logic: Subjective Semantics: Bas Van Fraassen
Reference and Its Role in Computational Models of Mental Representation: Yorick Wilks