Category: Semantics

By Joaquín Borrego-Díaz, Antonia M. Chávez-González, Mónica A. Martín-Pérez (auth.), Juan Manuel Dodero, Manuel Palomo-Duarte, Pythagoras Karampiperis (eds.)

ISBN-10: 3642352324

ISBN-13: 9783642352324

ISBN-10: 3642352332

ISBN-13: 9783642352331

This ebook constitutes the refereed court cases of the sixth Metadata and Semantics learn convention, MTSR 2012, held in Cádiz, Spain, in November 2012. The 33 revised papers provided have been rigorously reviewed and chosen from eighty five submissions. The papers are geared up in a basic, major tune and several other others: a music on metadata and semantics for open entry repositories, study info structures and infrastructures, a moment on metadata and semantics for cultural collections and functions, and at last one on metadata and semantics for agriculture, nutrition and environment.

By Daniel Chandler

ISBN-10: 0415363764

ISBN-13: 9780415363761

This up to date moment version offers a transparent and concise advent to the main suggestions of semiotics in obtainable and jargon-free language. With a revised creation and word list, prolonged index and proposals for additional interpreting, this new version offers an elevated variety of examples together with laptop and cellphone know-how, T.V. ads and the web.
Demystifying what's a fancy, hugely interdisciplinary box, key questions lined include:
- what's a sign?
- Which codes can we take for granted?
- How can semiotics be utilized in textual analysis?
- what's a text?
A hugely invaluable, must-have source, Semiotics: the fundamentals is the perfect introductory textual content for these learning this becoming sector.

By Simon Yates

ISBN-10: 1856278727

ISBN-13: 9781856278720

By Samuel C Wheeler

ISBN-10: 0415857287

ISBN-13: 9780415857284

Much modern metaphysics, moved by means of an obvious necessity to take fact to include given beings and houses, provides us with what seem to be deep difficulties requiring radical adjustments within the logic belief of people and the realm. modern meta-ethics ignores questions on logical shape and formulates questions in ways in which make the opportunity of right price judgments mysterious. during this booklet, Wheeler argues that given a Davidsonian realizing of fact, predication, and interpretation, and given a relativised model of Aristotelian essentialism appropriate with Davidson’s simple considering, many metaphysical difficulties should not very deep. Likewise, many philosophers' claims that good judgment has to be transformed are unfounded. He argues extra right attention of questions of logical shape clarifies and illuminates meta-ethical questions. even if the analyses and arguments he supplies are frequently at odds with these at which Davidson arrived, they follow the vital Davidsonian insights approximately semantics, knowing, and interpretation.

By Eystein Dahl

ISBN-10: 9047440501

ISBN-13: 9789047440505

By Robert G. Ingersoll

By Daniel Fox

ISBN-10: 0262062062

ISBN-13: 9780262062060

ISBN-10: 0262561212

ISBN-13: 9780262561211

ISBN-10: 0585248044

ISBN-13: 9780585248042

In financial system and Semantic Interpretation, Danny Fox investigates the relevance of ideas of optimization (economy) to the interface among syntax and semantics. aiding the view that grammar is particular by means of economic climate concerns, Fox argues for varied financial system stipulations that constrain the program of "covert" operations. between different issues, he argues that syntactic operations that don't have an effect on phonology can't observe until they impact the semantic interpretation of a sentence. This place has a couple of results for the structure of grammar. for instance, it means that the modularity assumption, in response to which a language's syntax has to be characterised independently of its semantics, should be revised. one other final result matters new solutions to the query of precisely the place within the syntactic derivation a few of the constraints on interpretation apply.Linguistic Inquiry Monograph No. 35Copublished with the MIT operating Papers in Linguistics sequence.

By Peter W. Culicover

ISBN-10: 0199271089

ISBN-13: 9780199271085

ISBN-10: 0199271097

ISBN-13: 9780199271092

ISBN-10: 1435622715

ISBN-13: 9781435622715

This groundbreaking booklet bargains a brand new and compelling standpoint at the constitution of human language. the elemental factor it addresses is the correct stability among syntax and semantics, among constitution and derivation, and among rule platforms and lexicon. It argues that the stability struck via mainstream generative grammar is incorrect. It places ahead a brand new foundation for syntactic conception, drawing on quite a lot of frameworks, and charts new instructions for study. long ago 4 a long time, theories of syntactic constitution became extra summary, and syntactic derivations became ever extra advanced. Peter Culicover and Ray Jackendoff hint this improvement throughout the historical past of up to date syntactic concept, displaying how a lot it's been pushed via theory-internal instead of empirical issues. They strengthen another that's aware of linguistic, cognitive, computational, and organic matters. easier Syntax is addressed to linguists of all persuasions. it is going to even be of principal curiosity to these occupied with language in psychology, human biology, evolution, computational technology, and synthetic intelligence.

By Regine Eckardt, Klaus Von Heusinger, Christoph Schwarze (eds.)

ISBN-10: 3110176750

ISBN-13: 9783110176759

Meanings of phrases are continuously altering, and the forces using those alterations are diverse and numerous. the gathering makes a speciality of that means switch as an issue of interdisciplinary learn. exceptional students in diachronic semantics, common linguistics, classical philology, philosophy of language, anthropology and historical past provide extensive experiences of language inner and exterior elements of that means switch. This huge diversity of views, extraordinary in learn guides of contemporary years, is a pioneering try and reflect the multi-facetteous nature of language as a proper, social, cognitive, cultural and ancient entity. The contributions, every one exploring the learn concerns, tools and strategies in their specific box, are directed in the direction of a broader viewers of readers, hence bettering interdisciplinary trade.

By Thorsten Fogen

This quantity brings jointly revised papers that have been offered at a convention, held at Humboldt college of Berlin in March 2004, on technical texts and technical languages in Graeco-Roman antiquity. The contributions examine the cultural measurement of technical texts and their diverse manifestations. They examine how old technical writers handled linguistic and stylistic, specifically terminological, positive factors, but additionally specialize in the pragmatic point of technical texts, e.g., their constitution and shape, their intentions and readers, in addition to the position of polemics and the connection among textual content and illustrations. The contributions are written in German and English.