The social foundations of meaning
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The social foundations of meaning
Springer-Verlag, c1988
- : German ed.
- : U.S. ed.
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Library & Science Information Center, Osaka Prefecture University
: German ed.NDC6:801||SA12||10091493491
Note
Bibliography: p. 145-148
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
An empirical case study is used here to analyze linguistic meaning as it is embedded in complex social behavior. The whole of a natural signalling system - its nonlinguistic conventions, pragmatics and semantics - is considered. Three sections analyze: the relevant conventional facts; conventional utterance meaning in terms of conventional facts; and, finally, sentence meaning in terms of conventional utterance meaning. Linguistic meaning is seen to be derived from meaningful social behavior rather than from goal-directed behavior of individuals. A number of new results on pragmatic and semantic meaning are reached.
Table of Contents
Introductory summary.- I Conventional meaning: The pretheoretical intuition.- 1 Conventional meaning vs. natural meaning.- 2 Conventional meaning vs. speaker's meaning.- 3 Conventional meaning and correct understanding.- 4 Correct understanding: The conventional result principle.- 5 Conventional systems evolving into languages.- 6 Communication: Redistributing situational roles.- 7 The strategy of language description.- II Compliance with rules.- 8 The weak Hart analysis of rule - guided behavior.- 9 Why dismiss the 'internal aspect'?.- 10 Hart attacks repelled.- 11 An attractive alternative: Lewis conventions.- 12 No rigid problem - solving.- 13 Choice rules.- 14 Knowledge of conventions.- 15 Can meaning sneak in via common knowledge?.- 16 Conventional make - ups and how to detect them.- III A case for utterance meaning: NIVEAU zero.- 17 A plea for case studies.- 18 The first utterance meaning rules.- 19 Background conventions and suspected signals.- 20 Strengthening the description.- 21 The meaning of circumstances.- 22 Theoretical fruitfulness.- IV Conventional utterance meaning.- 23 Language use: Conventional behavior calling for a special kind of description.- 24 Conventional utterance meaning defined.- 25 Neptune: Conventional perturbations and their best explanation.- 26 Expressions and expressive power.- 27 The diversity of language.- 28 The theoretical character of the speech act of reference.- V Against intentionalism.- 29 Preliminaries.- 30 Ignored motives for making constative utterances.- 31 Gricean intentions: Irrelevant and unlikely.- 32 Speakers' meaning and conventional meaning: Empirically connected.- 33 The Thomistic fallacy.- 34 Genitives subjectivus and genitives objectivus.- 35 Declarations of meaning.- VI The same case for sentence meaning: NIVEAU.- 36 The new problem.- 37 Grouping signs by positing new entities.- 38 Some semantic features: Ambiguity, negation, anaphora.- VII Some results for sentence meaning.- 39 The point of having sentence meanings.- 40 Sentence meaning defined.- 41 Two different tasks in the study of sentence meaning.- 42 The theoretical character of sentence meaning.- 43 Sentence meaning is conceptually irreducible.- Epilogue.- 44 Rules of language.- Appendix I: Complete description of NIVEAU zero.- Appendix II: Complete description of NIVEAU.
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