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Category : General semantics
Languages : en
Pages : 94
Book Description
General Semantics Bulletin
Author: Science and Sanity
Author: Alfred KorzybskiPublisher: Institute of GS
ISBN: 9780937298015
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 938
Book Description
General Semantics Bulletin
Author: Drive Yourself Sane
Author: Susan Presby KodishPublisher: Extensional Publishing
ISBN: 9780970066466
Category : APA psychotherapy videotape series IV.
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
General Semantics and Contemporary Thomism
Author: Margaret GormanPublisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 9780803250758
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
To one who has just begun to make his acquaintance with the literature of general semantics, Mother Gorman's book will prove an invaluable guide. From her first chapter giving a historical sketch of the main ideas to her final chapter surveying the ways in which they have influenced education in America, the book is a mine of useful information. Mother Gorman is not a general semanticist. Her reservations about what she regards as the profound philosophical errors of general semantics naturally keep her from aligning herself with this school of thought. But she is an unusually interested bystander and a diligent scholar. Hence she has made an extremely thorough search of the literature, with the result that in many ways she knows a lot more about general semantics than many who call themselves semanticists.--S. I. Hayakawa
Semantics - Theories
Author: Claudia MaienbornPublisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3110589249
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 450
Book Description
Now in paperback for the first time since its original publication, the material gathered here is perfect for anyone who needs a detailed and accessible introduction to the important semantic theories. Designed for a wide audience, it will be of great value to linguists, cognitive scientists, philosophers, and computer scientists working on natural language. The book covers theories of lexical semantics, cognitively oriented approaches to semantics, compositional theories of sentence semantics, and discourse semantics. This clear, elegant explanation of the key theories in semantics research is essential reading for anyone working in the area.
Semantics as Science
Author: Richard K. LarsonPublisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 0262539950
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 497
Book Description
An introductory linguistics textbook that takes a novel approach: studying linguistic semantics as an exercise in scientific theory construction. This introductory linguistics text takes a novel approach, one that offers educational value to both linguistics majors and nonmajors. Aiming to help students not only grasp the fundamentals of the subject but also engage with broad intellectual issues and develop general intellectual skills, Semantics as Science studies linguistic semantics as an exercise in scientific theory construction. Semantics offers an excellent medium through which to acquaint students with the notion of a formal, axiomatic system—that is, a system that derives results from a precisely articulated set of assumptions according to a precisely articulated set of rules. The book develops semantic theory through the device of axiomatic T-theories, first proposed by Alfred Tarski more than eighty years ago, introducing technical elaboration only when required. It adopts Japanese as its core object of study, allowing students to explore and investigate the real empirical issues arising in the context of non-English structures, a non-English lexicon and non-English meanings. The book is structured as a laboratory science text that poses specific empirical questions, with 25 short units, each of which can be covered in one class session. The layout is engagingly visual, designed to help students understand and retain the material, with lively illustrations, examples, and quotations from famous scholars.
The Geometry of Meaning
Author: Peter GärdenforsPublisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 0262026783
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 357
Book Description
A novel cognitive theory of semantics that proposes that the meanings of words can be described in terms of geometric structures.
A General-semantics Glossary
Author: Robert P. PulaPublisher: Institute of GS
ISBN: 9780918970497
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 140
Book Description
Introduction to Semantics
Author: Thomas Ede ZimmermannPublisher: Walter de Gruyter
ISBN: 3110314371
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
This textbook helps undergraduate students of language and linguistics taking their first steps in one of the core areas of grammar, introducing them to the basic ideas, insights, and techniques of contemporary semantic theory. Requiring no special background knowledge, the book starts with everyday observations about word meaning and use and then hightlights the role of structure in the analysis of the meanings of phrases and clauses, zooming in on the fascinating and vexing question of how speakers manage to meaningfully communicate with sentences and texts they have never come across before. At the same time, the reader becomes acquainted with the modern, functionalist characterization of linguistic meaning in terms of reference (extension) and information (intension), and learns to apply technical tools from formal logic to analyzing the meaning of complex linguistic expressions as being composed by the meanings of their parts. Each of the nine main chapters contains a variety of exercises for self-study and classroom use, with model solutions in the appendix. Extensive English examples provide ample illustration.