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Record Nr.

UNISA996411333803316

Autore

Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf

Titolo

Constructions in Use / / Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf

Pubbl/distr/stampa

De Gruyter, 2021

Düsseldorf : , : düsseldorf university press, , [2017]

©2021

ISBN

3-11-072033-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (338 p.)

Collana

Dissertations in Language and Cognition

Disciplina

401.4

Soggetti

LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / General

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- 1 Introduction -- I. Meaning -- 2 Meaning: Primary, Pragmatic, and Others -- 3 Usage-based Theories of Meaning -- 4 Truth-conditional Theories of Meaning -- II. Disposition -- 5 Theories of Truth & Meaning -- 6 Dispositional Analyses -- III. Method -- 7 Semantic-Methodological Concerns -- 8 On Phenomena and Tokenings -- 9 Conclusion -- Bibliography

Sommario/riassunto

Semantics is one of the core disciplines of philosophy of language. There are basically two strands of established theories: use-based and truth-conditional, with the latter being the dominant variety. This dominance has been questioned recently by linguists who embrace a research paradigm that is known as construction grammar. As construction grammar is use-based, it seems natural to suppose that its success is indirect support for use-based semantics in philosophy. This is true. But there's still a lot to do. Although there are use-based theories that fit quite well with current research in linguistics, they are far from being perfect. In particular, the most popular theory in that area is still tied to some of the main motivations behind truth-conditional semantics. 'Constructions in Use' offers an alternative by proposing to let this legacy go. Instead, it argues that philosophical semantics is best off if it goes for an entirely use-based theory. This series explores issues of mental representation, linguistic structure and representation, and their interplay. The research presented in this



series is grounded in the idea explored in the Collaborative Research Center 'The structure of representations in language, cognition and science' (SFB 991) that there is a universal format for the representation of linguistic and cognitive concepts.