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The Semantics of Media

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  • © 1997

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Authors:
  1. Jeff Ross

    1. Perkin Arts Centre, Melbourne, Australia

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Part of the book series: Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy (SLAP, volume 64)

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Table of contents (6 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-vii
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  2. Media

    • Jeff Ross
    Pages 1-9

  3. Basic Propositional Content

    • Jeff Ross
    Pages 11-32

  4. Reflections on Content

    • Jeff Ross
    Pages 33-54

  5. With Reference to Characters

    • Jeff Ross
    Pages 55-71

  6. The Semantics of Viewpoint

    • Jeff Ross
    Pages 73-97

  7. The Semantics of Interaction

    • Jeff Ross
    Pages 99-127

  8. Back Matter

    Pages 129-140
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About this book

Media are objects with content and character that we describe using in- phrases: in the story, in the picture, in the movie, in the dream... Like the propositional attitudes, these objects present a variety of hard problems for semantic and philosophical analysis. The Semantics of Media is an organized exploration of fundamental questions in the semantics of media.
The first three chapters set out a straightforward model within the possible-worlds framework, and consider how it might account for a range of notions applying to media generally: implicit vs. explicit content, propositional vs. individual content, causal vs. intentional content and the idea of a single World of the Medium.
The final three chapters examine ways of elaborating the model to cover a range of phenomena keyed to the functionality of particular forms of media. Chapter Four is a discussion of fiction and our apparent reference to fictional characters. Chapter Five deals with the phenomenon of viewpoint in pictorial media. Chapter Six is a study of interactions between users and characters of media centering on the puzzling case of seeing in films.
The Semantics of Media will be of interest to specialists in the fields of linguistics, philosophy and communications.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Perkin Arts Centre, Melbourne, Australia

    Jeff Ross

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: The Semantics of Media

  • Authors: Jeff Ross

  • Series Title: Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-5650-9

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 1997

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-7923-4389-9Published: 31 January 1997

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-94-010-6383-8Published: 08 October 2012

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-011-5650-9Published: 06 December 2012

  • Series ISSN: 0924-4662

  • Series E-ISSN: 2215-034X

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: VII, 141

  • Topics: Linguistics, general, Theoretical Linguistics, Social Sciences, general

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