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WORD MEANING AND BELIEF
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| By: |
Gilbert Barnabe |
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Electronic book text |
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£27.99 |
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| ISBN 10: |
1134995075 |
| ISBN 13: |
9781134995073 |
| Publisher: |
TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD |
| Pub. date: |
18 November, 2016 |
| Series: |
Routledge Library Editions: Semantics and Semiology |
| Pages: |
179 |
| Synopsis: |
First published in 1983, the aim of this book is to diagnose linguists' failure to advance satisfactory theories of lexical meaning, then to propose the requirements that such a theory should meet and, drawing on work in philosophy and psychology, to take the first steps towards satisfying these requirements. It begins by discussing the work of Quine on the indeterminacy of translation and it is shown that attempts by linguists to answer Quine's arguments by proposing universal `semantic primitives' or their equivalents is unsatisfactory. The relation between the theory of word meaning and the theory of categorisation is explored, and an alternative to Rosch's `family resemblance' account of the `prototype' effect in both nouns and verbs is provided. The author argues that identification of certain implicit categories like `action' and `event' can be related to principles of individuation, and builds on the work of Kripke and Putnam on proper names and natural kind terms. This book will be of interest to students of linguistics and the philosophy of language. |
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UK |
| Imprint: |
Routledge |
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Non-returnable |
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