Language, Meaning and Context
Author: John Lyons
Publisher: Fontana Press
Published: 1981
Total Pages: 262
ISBN-13:
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Lexical Meaning in Context
Author: Nicholas Asher
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2011-03-17
Total Pages: 345
ISBN-13: 1139501313
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis is a book about the meanings of words and how they can combine to form larger meaningful units, as well as how they can fail to combine when the amalgamation of a predicate and argument would produce what the philosopher Gilbert Ryle called a 'category mistake'. It argues for a theory in which words get assigned both an intension and a type. The book develops a rich system of types and investigates its philosophical and formal implications, for example the abandonment of the classic Church analysis of types that has been used by linguists since Montague. The author integrates fascinating and puzzling observations about lexical meaning into a compositional semantic framework. Adjustments in types are a feature of the compositional process and account for various phenomena including coercion and copredication. This book will be of interest to semanticists, philosophers, logicians and computer scientists alike.
Context in the System and Process of Language
Author: Ruqaiya Hasan
Publisher: Equinox
Published: 2012-11-30
Total Pages: 416
ISBN-13: 9781904768395
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe concept "context of situation" introduced by Malinowski some eighty years ago has now become an essential element of the vocabulary of any linguistic theory whose aim is to reveal the nature of language. With the abandonment of the spurious distinction between competence and performance, the process of language, i.e., language use, has claimed its rightful place in the study of language. The chapters of this book focus on the relations of context and text, conceptualising the latter as language operative in some recognizable social context. It is argued that context is not simply a backdrop for the occurrence of words; rather, it is an active element which on the one hand plays a crucial role in the progression of human discourse and on the other enters into and shapes the very nature of language as process and as system, furnishing the foundation for functionality in language. Acting as the interface between language and society, context analysis reveals the power of language for creating, maintaining and changing human relationships.
Meaning in Context
Author: Jonathan J. Webster
Publisher: A&C Black
Published: 2008-04-21
Total Pages: 320
ISBN-13: 1441156445
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMeaning in Context collects some of the biggest names in systemic functional linguistics in one volume, and shows how this theory can be applied to language studies 'intelligently', in order to arrive at a better understanding of how meaning is constructed in language. The chapters use systemic functional theory to examine a range of issues including corpus linguistics, multimodality, language technology, world Englishes and language evolution. This forward-thinking volume will be of interest to researchers in applied linguistics and systemic functional linguistics.
Context and Contexts
Author: Anita Fetzer
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Published: 2011-06-09
Total Pages: 250
ISBN-13: 9027286639
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book departs from the premise that context represents a complex relational configuration which can no longer be conceived as an analytic prime but rather requires a parts-whole perspective to capture its inherent dynamism. The edited volume presents a collection of papers which examine the connectedness between context, contextualization and entextualization. They address the questions how meaning and speech acts are situated in context, how both are influenced by context, how context influences speech acts and meaning, how context is imported into the discourse, and how context is entextualized in discourse. The papers cover institutional and non-institutional contexts, the language of Greek laws, political discourse, confrontational media discourse and task-oriented face-to-face and back-to-back interactions. They reflect current moves in pragmatics and discourse analysis to cross disciplinary and methodological boundaries by integrating relevant premises and insights, in particular cognition, adaptive action, negotiation of meaning, sequentiality, recipient design and genre.
Context-Dependence in the Analysis of Linguistic Meaning
Author: Hans Kamp
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2021-10-01
Total Pages: 566
ISBN-13: 9004487220
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis collection of papers addresses context-dependence and methods for dealing with it. The book also records comments to the papers and the authors' replies to the comments. In this way, the contributions themselves are contextually dependent. It represents an inquiry into the activities on the semantics side of the pragmatics boundary.
Language, Context, and Text
Author: Michael Alexander Kirkwood Halliday
Publisher: Deakin University Press
Published: 1985
Total Pages: 144
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Author: Christopher Hutton
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Published: 2009-01-19
Total Pages: 256
ISBN-13: 0748633529
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLanguage, Meaning and the Law offers an accessible, critical guide to debates about linguistic meaning and interpretation in relation to legal language. Law is an ideal domain for considering fundamental questions relating to how we assign meanings to words, understand and comment on texts, and deal with socially and ideologically significant questions of interpretation. The book argues that theoretical issues of concern to linguists, philosophers, literary theorists and others are illuminated by the demands of the legal context, since law is driven by the need for practical solutions and for determinate outcomes based on explicit reasoning. Topics covered include: the relationship of linguistics to legal theory, indeterminacy and statutory interpretation, the theory and practice of using dictionaries in law, defamation and language in the public sphere, and the distinction between perjury and deception. This book does not assume specialist knowledge of the field, and is designed as a self-contained, advanced introduction to a fascinating area of study. The reader will gain an overall insight into issues and debates about meaning and interpretation, as well as an understanding of how these questions are shaped by the legal context.
Meaning, Context and Methodology
Author: Sarah-Jane Conrad
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Published: 2017-10-23
Total Pages: 238
ISBN-13: 1501504320
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhat methodological impact does Contextualism have on the philosophy of language? This collection sets out to provide some answers. The authors in this volume question three ultimately connected assumptions of the philosophy of language. The first assumption relates to the predominant status of referential semantics and its power to explain truth-conditional meaning. This assumption has come under attack by the context thesis and a number of papers pursue the question of whether this is justified. The second assumption gives priority to assertive sentences when considering language use. The context thesis changes our understanding of language use altogether; possible implications from this methodological shift are addressed in this volume. According to the third assumption, philosophical analysis amounts to nothing more than conceptual analysis. The context thesis risks undermining this project. Whether conceptual analysis can still be defended as a methodological tool is discussed in this volume.
Resources in Education
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Published: 1997-05
Total Pages: 348
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