Science of Meaning

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Science of Meaning

Essays on the Metatheory of Natural Language Semantics

Philosophy of language Semantics, discourse analysis, stylistics Cognition and cognitive psychology

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Language: English

Published by: OUP Oxford

Published on: 11th July 2018

Format: LCP-protected ePub

Size: 2 Mb

ISBN: 9780191059964


Language and Its Meaning

By creating certain marks on paper, or by making certain sounds-breathing past a moving tongue-or by articulation of hands and bodies, language users can give expression to their mental lives.

With language we command, assert, query, emote, insult, and inspire.

Language has meaning. This fact can be quite mystifying, yet a science of linguistic meaning-semantics-has emerged at the intersection of a variety of disciplines: philosophy, linguistics, computer science, and psychology.

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