Overview
- Provides a detailed and widely accessible presentation of both the technical and the philosophical foundations of formal semantics
- Includes a unique interdisciplinary discussion around the issue of linguistic meaning, combining insights from linguistics, philosophy and neurocognition
- Develops a new perspective on linguistic meaning, eliminating the traditional dichotomy between externalism and internalism in semantics
Part of the book series: Perspectives in Pragmatics, Philosophy & Psychology (PEPRPHPS, volume 25)
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Table of contents (36 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Meaning and Objects
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Meaning and Subjects
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About this book
In this book, Gaetano Fiorin and Denis Delfitto disclose a notion of linguistic meaning that is structured around three distinct, yet interconnected dimensions: a linguistic dimension, relating meaning to the linguistic forms that convey it; a material dimension, relating meaning to the material and social conditions of its environment; and a psychological dimension, relating meaning to the cognitive lives of its users.
By paying special attention to the puzzle surrounding first-person reference – the way speakers exploit language to refer to themselves – and by capitalizing on a number of recent findings in the cognitive sciences, Fiorin and Delfitto develop the original hypothesis that meaningful language shares the same underlying logical and metaphysical structure of sense perception, effectively acting as a system of classification and discrimination at the interface between cognitive agents and their ecologies.
Authors and Affiliations
About the authors
Denis Delfitto is Professor of Linguistics at the University of Verona. He graduated at the Scuola Normale in Pisa and had many research and teaching experiences in a number of American and European universities. His publications – in international scientific journals and peer-reviewed volumes – span from the syntax of reference and quantification in natural language – including issues of comparative syntax and semantics – to issues of language change and language impairment. His core interest is the investigation of the human capacity for language from a broad cognitive and philosophical perspective.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Beyond Meaning: A Journey Across Language, Perception and Experience
Authors: Gaetano Fiorin, Denis Delfitto
Series Title: Perspectives in Pragmatics, Philosophy & Psychology
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-46317-5
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Religion and Philosophy, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-46316-8Published: 18 June 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-46319-9Published: 19 June 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-46317-5Published: 17 June 2020
Series ISSN: 2214-3807
Series E-ISSN: 2214-3815
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 337
Number of Illustrations: 79 b/w illustrations
Topics: Philosophy of Language, Pragmatics, Applied Linguistics