Knowledge of Meaning: An Introduction to Semantic Theory
by Richard K. Larson, Gabriel Segal
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Many textbooks in formal semantics are all versions of, or introductions to, the same paradigm in semantic theory: Montague Grammar. Knowledge of Meaning is based on different assumptions and a different history. It provides the only introduction to truth-theoretic semantics for natural languages, fully integrating semantic theory into the modern Chomskyan programme in linguistic theory and connecting linguistic semantics to research elsewhere in cognitive psychology and philosophy. As such, show more it better fits into a modern graduate or undergraduate programme in linguistics, cognitive science, or philosophy. Furthermore, since the technical tools it employs are much simpler to teach and to master, Knowledge of Meaning can be taught by someone who is not primarily a semanticist. show lessTags
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- 401.43 — Language Language Philosophy and theory; international languages Communication; semantics, pragmatics, languages for special purposes Semantics
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- P325 .L298 — Language and Literature Philology. Linguistics Language. Linguistic theory. Comparative grammar Semantics
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