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On the Treatment of Meaning in Linguistics
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Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 2023
Abstract The target article focuses on evidence from nonlinguistic faculties to defend the claim that cognition generally traffics in language-of-thought (LoT)-type representations. This focus creates needed space to discuss the mounting accumulation of nonclassical evidence for LoT, but it also misses relevant work in linguistics that directly ...
Alexis Wellwood, Tim Hunter
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Abstract The target article focuses on evidence from nonlinguistic faculties to defend the claim that cognition generally traffics in language-of-thought (LoT)-type representations. This focus creates needed space to discuss the mounting accumulation of nonclassical evidence for LoT, but it also misses relevant work in linguistics that directly ...
Alexis Wellwood, Tim Hunter
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Linguistic meanings as cognitive instructions
Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 2021AbstractNatural languages like English connect pronunciations with meanings. Linguistic pronunciations can be described in ways that relate them to our motor system (e.g., to the movement of our lips and tongue). But how do linguistic meanings relate to our nonlinguistic cognitive systems?
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On The Autonomy of Linguistic Meaning
Mind, 1997Frege and many following him, such as Dummett, Geach, Stenius and Hare, have envisaged a role for illocutionary force indicators in a logically perspicuous notation. Davidson has denied that such expressions are even possible on the ground that any putative force indicator would be used by actors and jokers to heighten the drama of their performances ...
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2014
Dr Keith Allan presents a coherent, consistent and comprehensive account of linguistic meaning, centred around an informally presented theory of meaning. It is intended for graduate and undergraduate students of linguistics, or any linguist curious about what a theory of meaning should seek to accomplish and the way to achieve that aim.The work assumes
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Dr Keith Allan presents a coherent, consistent and comprehensive account of linguistic meaning, centred around an informally presented theory of meaning. It is intended for graduate and undergraduate students of linguistics, or any linguist curious about what a theory of meaning should seek to accomplish and the way to achieve that aim.The work assumes
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Embodied experience and linguistic meaning
Brain and Language, 2003What role does people's embodied experiences have in their use and understanding of meaning? Most theories in cognitive science view meaning in terms of propositional structures that may be combined to form higher-order complexes in representing the meanings of conversations and texts.
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Linguistic meaning and language comprehension
Information Processing & Management, 1983Abstract Recent developments in cognitive science are assessed as a challenge to the well established view in philosophy of language and linguistics that meaning is inherent to language and is relatively fixed. It is concluded that the challenge is unsuccessful.
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Linguistic Meaning Meets Linguistic Form
2020This book steers a middle course between two opposing conceptions that currently dominate the field of semantics, the logical and cognitive approaches. It brings to light the inadequacies of both frameworks, and argues along with the Columbia School that linguistic semantics must be grounded on the linguistic sign itself and the meaning it conveys ...
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2020
The primary function of linguistic signs is to express and convey meaning, and ultimately to communicate. Hence, it is essential to study the issue of meaning so as to reveal the semiotic, systematic, hierarchical, social, ethnic and other characteristics of language. And any attempt to discern the nature of language and linguistic phenomena by casting
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The primary function of linguistic signs is to express and convey meaning, and ultimately to communicate. Hence, it is essential to study the issue of meaning so as to reveal the semiotic, systematic, hierarchical, social, ethnic and other characteristics of language. And any attempt to discern the nature of language and linguistic phenomena by casting
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The Primitives of Linguistic Meaning
American Anthropologist, 1997Semantics: Primes and Universals. Anna Wierzbicka. Oxford, England: Oxford University Press, 1996. 500 pp.
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