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Preface | ix | |
1 | Introduction | 1 |
2 | Explanations of word meaning | 11 |
2.1 | Meaning and reference | 12 |
2.2 | The image theory of meaning | 15 |
2.3 | Meaning and concepts | 16 |
2.3.1 | Componential analysis | 18 |
3 | Meaning and truth | |
3.1 | Tarski's truth definition and sentence meaning | 23 |
3.2 | Truth conditions and word meaning | 28 |
3.3 | Meaning and necessary truth | 30 |
3.4 | Truth conditions and logical form | 34 |
3.4.1 | Sentence v. statement | 36 |
3.4.2 | Logical truth v. analytic truth | 37 |
3.4.3 | Truth conditions and entailment | 38 |
3.5 | Sentence meaning and the non-declaratives | 41 |
4 | Meaning and language use | |
4.1 | Bloomfield and behaviorism | 47 |
4.2 | Speech act semantics | 50 |
5 | Speech act semantics v. truth-conditional semantics | |
5.1 | Speech act semantics and sentence relations | 58 |
5.2 | Speech act semantics and non-declaratives | 61 |
5.3 | A re-appraisal of the problems | 63 |
5.3.1 | Performative utterances and truth-value assignment | 64 |
5.4 | A theory of language use: pragmatics | 68 |
5.5 | Summary | 73 |
6 | The formalisation of word meaning | 76 |
6.1 | Word, lexical item and the problem of homonymy | 79 |
6.2 | Lexical structure | 83 |
6.2.1 | Componential analysis and lexical relations | 86 |
6.2.2 | The relation between lexical items and semantic components | 87 |
6.2.3 | The formal representation of semantic components | 88 |
6.2.4 | Componential analysis: the nature of the evidence | 92 |
6.2.5 | Semantic universals? | 96 |
6.3 | Summary | 101 |
7 | Sentence meaning | |
7.1 | Deep structure and semantic representations of sentence meaning | 106 |
7.1.1 | The definition of deep structure | 106 |
7.1.2 | A projection rule for sentence meaning | 109 |
7.2 | Selectional restrictions: the problem of anomaly | 112 |
7.3 | Negation | 117 |
8 | Ambiguity and vagueness | 123 |
8.1 | Four types of vagueness | 124 |
8.2 | An ambiguity test | 128 |
8.3 | Ambiguity and negation | 132 |
8.4 | Quantifiers and problems in testing ambiguity | 135 |
9 | The logic of natural language | 139 |
9.1 | Presupposition and entailment defined | 141 |
9.2 | Presupposition and the negation test | 145 |
9.3 | Internal negation v. external negation | 148 |
9.3.1 | Negation and the ambiguity test revisited | 148 |
9.3.2 | The three-valued definition of and | 149 |
9.4 | Summary | 154 |
10 | Syntax and semantics | |
10.1 | 'Standard' deep structure and semantic representation | 159 |
10.2 | Surface structure and semantic representation | 161 |
10.3 | Deep structure and semantic representation identified: an ambiguity argument | 164 |
10.4 | Phrase structure rules, transformations and semantic representation | 165 |
10.5 | Syntax and semantics: the issue reviewed | 173 |
10.6 | Summary | 181 |
11 | The state of the art and prospects for the future | 184 |
11.1 | Linguistic semantics v. logical semantics? | 185 |
11.2 | Meaning postulates | 188 |
11.3 | Outlook for the future | |
11.3.1 | Semantics | 191 |
11.3.2 | Pragmatics | 192 |
Bibliography | 197 | |
Index | 209 |
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