The Science of Meaning: Essays on the Metatheory of Natural Language Semantics

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.

Author: Derek Ball
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 09/30/2020
Pages: 432
Weight: 1.5lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.10w x 1.00d
ISBN: 9780198865735