The Building Blocks of Meaning: Ideas for a Philosophical GrammarJohn Benjamins Publishing, 01.01.2004 - 520 Seiten The shaping of complex meanings depends on punctual and relational coding and inferencing. Coding is viewed as a vector which can run either from expression to content or from concepts to (linguistic) forms to mark independent conceptual relations. While coding relies on systematic resources internal to language, inferencing essentially depends on a layered system of autonomous shared conceptual structures, which include both cognitive models and consistency criteria grounded in a natural ontology. Inference guided by coding is not a residual pragmatic device but it is a direct way to long-term conceptual structures that guide the connection of meanings. The interaction of linguistic forms and concepts is particularly clear in conceptual conflict where conflictual complex meanings provide insights into the roots of significance and the linguistic structure of metaphors. Complementing a formal analysis of linguistic structures with a substantive analysis of conceptual structures, a philosophical grammar provides insights from both formal and functional approaches toward a more profound understanding of how language works in constructing and communicating complex meanings. This monograph is ideally addressed to linguists, philosophers and psychologists interested in language as symbolic form and as an instrument of human action rooted in a complex conceptual and cognitive landscape. |
Inhalt
CHAPTER | 2 |
Coding and inferencing | 33 |
CHAPTER 3 | 46 |
PART II | 90 |
CHAPTER 8 | 101 |
Consistency criteria within philosophic and linguistic reflexion | 103 |
CHAPTER 5 | 119 |
CHAPTER 6 | 151 |
Consistency criteria as presuppositions of natural attitude | 225 |
PART III | 245 |
CHAPTER 10 | 278 |
CHAPTER 11 | 345 |
CHAPTER 12 | 405 |
Notes | 421 |
References | 483 |
513 | |
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The Building Blocks of Meaning: Ideas for a philosophical grammar Michele Prandi Eingeschränkte Leseprobe - 2004 |
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action adjectives analysis anaphoric arguments autonomous behaviour Chapter clause cognitive models coherence communicative complex meanings complex sentence concepts conceptual conflict conceptual content conceptual structures connected consistency criteria construction content plane contingent contradiction core criterion defined differential definition distinction empirical encoded endocentric entities essential exocentric experience fact field formal functional given grammatical relations human idea ideation identified implicature inconsistent independent indirect object individuals inference inferencing inferential enrichment insofar instance interaction interclausal links interpretation John kind language language-specific lexemes lexical definition lexical solidarities lexical structures linguistic expressions linguistic structures margins mass nouns metaphor metonymy motivation natural ontology noun phrase paradigm perspective phonemes position predicate presuppositions priori properties punctual coding question reference relationship relevant role selection restrictions semantic semiotic sense sentence structure shaping shared significance simply specific speech act substantive synecdoche synonymy syntactic structures systematic tautology textual tion typical utterance verb words