This book seeks to bring together the pragmatic theory of 'meaning
as use' with the traditional semantic approach that considers
meaning in terms of truth conditions. Daniel Gutzmann adopts core
ideas by the philosopher David Kaplan in assuming that the meaning
of expressions such as oops or damn can be captured by giving the
conditions under which they can be felicitously used. He develops a
multidimensional approach to meaning, called hybrid semantics, that
incorporates use conditions alongside truth conditions in a unified
framework. This new system overcomes the empirical gaps and
conceptual problems associated with previous multidimensional
systems; it also lessens the burden on the compositional system by
shifting restrictions on the combination of use-conditional
expressions to the lexicon-semantics interface instead of building
them directly into the combinatoric rules. The approach outlined in
this book can capture the entire meaning of complex expressions,
and also has natural applications in the analysis of sentence mood
and modal particles in German, as Gutzmann's two detailed case
studies demonstrate. The book will be a valuable resource for
linguists working in the fields of semantics, pragmatics, and
philosophy of language, as well as to philosophers and cognitive
scientists with an interest in meaning in language.
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