Meaning: The Dynamic Turn (Current Research in the Semantics/Pragmatics Interface): 12 - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0080441874 ISBN 13: 9780080441870

Publisher: Brassey's (UK) Ltd, 2003

Synopsis

In recent decades, many theories of formal semantics of natural language have undergone what can be called a dynamic turn: they have moved from treating language as a static system to considering it 'in action' and to taking meanings as crucially involving 'context-change potentials'. The theories, however, usually concentrate much more on the hows of the turn than on its whys; and as a result, the conceptual foundations of dynamic semantics are much less elaborated than its technical side. This book, based on a conference held in Prague in September 2001, is a contribution to filling this gap: it consists of papers addressing, from various sides, the foundational questions of the dynamic theories of meaning. It includes contributions of writers who are commonly held as authorities concerning the turn, who, however, here concentrate more on the why's than on the how's of dynamic semantics. Hence the book should be of interest both for those who want to know what the turn is about, and for those who are not satisfied with knowing the technical side of dynamic semantics and want to know its point.

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"The book presents a collection of high quality papers that deal with a fundamental turn in the treatment of meaning...Read the full review at http://linguistlist.org/issues/16/16-3414.html"

Edition details

• Publisher: Brassey's (UK) Ltd
• Publication date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0080441874
• ISBN 13: 9780080441870
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 288
• Editor: Peregrin Jaroslav