Questa serie offre un forum dinamico per la ricerca originale sulla natura del significato nel linguaggio naturale, collegando la semantica e la pragmatica contemporanee. Incoraggia il lavoro accademico che si impegna sia con le linee di indagine storiche che attuali, rendendo le idee complesse accessibili a un vasto pubblico accademico. La collezione si rivolge a specialisti in linguistica, filosofia e scienze cognitive, nonché a campi correlati. Una caratteristica fondamentale è la fondazione degli argomenti teorici su esempi estesi, tratti principalmente dall'inglese ma che incorporano anche diverse lingue.
This book explores linguistic and philosophical issues presented by sentences expressing personal taste, such as Roller coasters are fun, and examines how truth-theoretic semantics can account for expressions of this type. It provides a detailed and explicit formal grammar paired with semantic analysis and pragmatic theory.
This book explores the semantics and pragmatics of honorifics, expressions that indicate the degree of formality that a speaker feels is required in interacting with another person. The analysis is applied to a variety of empirical examples, particularly from Japanese and Thai, and explores a wide range of related philosophical issues.
Focusing on the interplay between syntax and human reasoning, Gennaro Chierchia explores polarity sensitive and free choice items to deepen our understanding of language. He offers a new perspective on the semantics of focus and scope, as well as the pragmatics of implicature, positioning these elements within a recursive semantic framework. This investigation sheds light on the complexities of language processing and the cognitive mechanisms behind it.
This book considers how observations about the past influence future behaviour, as expressed in language. Focusing on information gathered from speech and other evidence sources, the author offers a model of how judgements about reliability can be made, and how such judgements factor into how people treat information they acquire via those sources