Description: Directival Theory of Meaning by Paweł Grabarczyk This book presents a new approach to semantics based on Kazimierz Ajdukiewiczs Directival Theory of Meaning (DTM), which in effect reduces semantics of the analysed language to the combination of its syntax and pragmatics. FORMAT Hardcover LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description This book presents a new approach to semantics based on Kazimierz Ajdukiewiczs Directival Theory of Meaning (DTM), which in effect reduces semantics of the analysed language to the combination of its syntax and pragmatics. The author argues that the DTM was forgotten because for many years philosophers didnt have conceptual tools to appreciate its innovative nature, and that the theory was far ahead of its time.The book shows how a redesigned and modernised version of the DTM can deliver a new solution to the problem of defining linguistic meaning and that the theory can be understood as a new type of functional role semantics. The defining feature of the DTM is that it presents meaning as a product of constraints on the usage of words. According to the DTM meaning is not use, but the avoidance of misuse.Readers will see how the DTM was shelved for reasons that we dont find so dramatic anymore, and how it contains enough original ideas and solutions to warrant developing it into a full-blown contemporary account. It is shown how many of the underlying ideas of the theory have been embraced later by philosophers and treated simply as brute facts about natural languages or even as new philosophical discoveries.Philosophers of language and researchers with an interest in how languages and the mind work will find this book a fascinating read. Back Cover This book presents a new approach to semantics based on Kazimierz Ajdukiewiczs Directival Theory of Meaning (DTM), which in effect reduces semantics of the analysed language to the combination of its syntax and pragmatics. The author argues that the DTM was forgotten because for many years philosophers didnt have conceptual tools to appreciate its innovative nature, and that the theory was far ahead of its time. The book shows how a redesigned and modernised version of the DTM can deliver a new solution to the problem of defining linguistic meaning and that the theory can be understood as a new type of functional role semantics. The defining feature of the DTM is that it presents meaning as a product of constraints on the usage of words. According to the DTM meaning is not use, but the avoidance of misuse. Readers will see how the DTM was shelved for reasons that we dont find so dramatic anymore, and how it contains enough original ideas and solutions to warrant developing it into a full-blown contemporary account. It is shown how many of the underlying ideas of the theory have been embraced later by philosophers and treated simply as brute facts about natural languages or even as new philosophical discoveries. Philosophers of language and researchers with an interest in how languages and the mind work will find this book a fascinating read. Author Biography Pawe Grabarczyk is a Polish philosopher of language and mind, working as an assistant professor at the Institute of Philosophy at the University of Lodz and as a post-doc at IT University of Copenhagen. He is the author of several articles on the notion of "meaning", "concept" and Ajdukiewiczs directival theory of meaning. He is the head of the Centre for Philosophical Research, the largest Polish non-governmental philosophical organization and the editor in chief of two journals: HYBRIS and Replay: Polish Journal of Game Studies. Table of Contents Preface.- Chapter 1. The Directival Theory of Meaning.- Chapter 2. Aims and ambitions of the DTM.- Chapter 3. Troubles ahead.- Chapter 4. The DTM among classic theories.- Chapter 5. Stepping outside the original DTM.- Chapter 6. New Directival Theory of Meaning.- Chapter 7. The nDTM among contemporaries.- Afterword. Feature Explores the directival theory of meaning for the first time in English Offers a new approach to functional role semantics Contributes a novel combination of distributed and embodied semantics Description for Sales People Explores the directival theory of meaning for the first time in English Offers a new approach to functional role semantics Contributes a novel combination of distributed and embodied semantics Details ISBN3030187810 Series Synthese Library Year 2019 ISBN-10 3030187810 ISBN-13 9783030187811 Format Hardcover Pages 238 Publication Date 2019-07-01 Short Title Directival Theory of Meaning Language English Subtitle From Syntax and Pragmatics to Narrow Linguistic Content DOI 10.1007/978-3-030-18783-5 Series Number 409 Edition 1st Place of Publication Cham Country of Publication Switzerland Illustrations 1 Illustrations, black and white; XIV, 238 p. 1 illus. Edited by Laura Ricci Birth 1974 Affiliation Massachusetts Institute of Technology Position journalist Qualifications S. J. Author Pawe Grabarczyk Publisher Springer Nature Switzerland AG Edition Description 1st ed. 2019 Imprint Springer Nature Switzerland AG DEWEY 121.68 Audience Professional & Vocational We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:126034737;
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