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Pulman, S.G.

 
9781138690523: Word Meaning and Belief (Routledge Library Editions: Semantics and Semiology)
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ISBN 10: 113869052X ISBN 13: 9781138690523
Editorial: Routledge, 2018

Sinopsis

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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Editorial
Routledge
Año de publicación
2018
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
113869052X
ISBN 13 
9781138690523
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Número de edición
1
Número de páginas
182
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