Meaning in linguistic interaction

• Verfasst von: Jaszczolt, Katarzyna [VerfasserIn]
• Titel: Meaning in linguistic interaction
• Titelzusatz: semantics, metasemantics, philosophy of language
• Verf.angabe: Kasia M. Jaszczolt
• Ausgabe: First edition
• Verlagsort: Oxford
• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Jahr: 2016
• Umfang: xii, 215 Seiten
• Format: cm
• Fussnoten: Hier auch später erschienene, unveränderte Nachdrucke
• ISBN: 978-0-19-960246-9
• ISBN: 0-19-960246-8
• Schlagwörter: (s)Semantik / (s)Pragmatik
• Schlagwörter: (s)Interaktion / (s)Semantik
• Sprache: eng
• RVK-Notation: ET 400
• RVK-Notation: ER 940
• Sach-SW: interaction analysis
• Sach-SW: communication
• Sach-SW: meaning
• Sach-SW: semantics
• K10plus-PPN: 1616707127

Abstract

This book offers a semantic and metasemantic inquiry into the representation of meaning in linguistic interaction. The author's view represents the most radical stance on meaning to be found in the contextualist tradition and thereby the most radical take on the semantics/pragmatics boundary. It allows for the selection of the cognitively plausible object of inquiry without being constrained by such distinctions as what is said/what is implicated or what is linguistic and what is extralinguistic. She argues that this is the only promising stance on meaning. The analysis transcends the traditional distinctions drawn, and traditional questions posed, in post-Gricean pragmatics and philosophy of language. It heavily relies on the dynamic construction of meaning in discourse, using truth conditions as a tool but at the same time conforming to pragmatic compositionality - whereby aspects of meaning that enter this composition have very different provenance

Abstract

Preface -- List of abbreviations and symbols. Introduction. 1 Wrong about meaning : Setting the scene -- The point of departure: language system or conversational interaction? -- "Minimalists," "maximalists," and "fixers" : Options and prospects for "minimalist" semantics -- Options and prospects for "maximalist" semantics -- Some points of convergence -- Literal meaning: an orthogonal issue? -- The "literal" confounded -- Why "literal" can't be restored -- ... or can it? -- Rethinking the contextualist outlook -- The systematicity issue -- Salience-based contextualism -- Whose meaning? -- In search of the adequate content -- Semantics, pragmatics, and their boundary: beyond the state of the art -- The role of the language system and cognitive minimalism -- THe role of a formal metalanguage in "meaning as use" -- Concluding remarks and "post-border-wars" reflections. 2 Interactive composition of meaning : Compositionality and its myths -- Misplaced truth conditions -- Misplaced faith in logical form -- Putting it right: the semantics of linguistic interaction -- A précis of default semantics -- The metaphysics of grammar -- Default semantics and a dedicated module: a disclaimer -- Lexicon/grammar/pragmatics trade-offs: an example -- Ways to temporality -- Vehicles of temporal reference. 3 Defaults in context : Salient meanings and default meanings -- Primary meaning vis-à-vis the explicit/implicit distinction -- Psychologism: a "corrupting intrusion?" -- Concluding remarks. 4 Delimiting the lexicon : Dynamic words -- Where lexicon ends and pragmatics begins -- Against meaning shifts -- Fluid characters -- Indexicality and language use -- The facets of context -- Referring expressions and referring agents. 5 The demise of indexicals: a case study : Expressing the SELF: a preamble -- First-person perspective -- Delimiting the first-person indexical -- A view from elsewhere -- A view from home -- Mode of self-presentation -- De se thoughts and de se reports in default semantics -- Disclaimers, conclusions, and further prospects. Conclusion: dispelling semantic myths. References -- Index