Beyond Meaning: A Journey Across Language, Perception and Experience (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2020)

Natural languages - idioms such as English and Cantonese, Zulu and Amharic, Basque and Nicaraguan Sign Language - allow their speakers to convey meaning and transmit meaning to one another. But what is meaning exactly? What is this thing that words convey and speakers communicate? Few questions are as elusive as this. Yet, few features are as essential to who we are and what we do as human beings as the capacity to convey meaning through language. In this book, Gaetano Fiorin and Denis Delfitto disclose a notion of linguistic meaning that is structured around three distinct, yet interconnected dimensions: a linguistic dimension, relating meaning to the linguistic forms that convey it; a material dimension, relating meaning to the material and social conditions of its environment; and a psychological dimension, relating meaning to the cognitive lives of its users. By paying special attention to the puzzle surrounding first-person reference - the way speakers exploit language to refer to themselves - and by capitalizing on a number of recent findings in the cognitive sciences, Fiorin and Delfitto develop the original hypothesis that meaningful language shares the same underlying logical and metaphysical structure of sense perception, effectively acting as a system of classification and discrimination at the interface between cognitive agents and their ecologies.

General

Imprint:	Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Country of origin:	Switzerland
Series:	Perspectives in Pragmatics, Philosophy & Psychology, 25
Release date:	June 2020
First published:	2020
Authors:	Gaetano Fiorin • Denis Delfitto
Dimensions:	235 x 155mm (L x W)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	337
Edition:	1st ed. 2020
ISBN-13:	978-3-03-046316-8
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Language & linguistics > Philosophy of language Books > Language & Literature > Literary & linguistic reference works > General Books > Language & Literature > Language & linguistics > Semantics (meaning) > Pragmatics
LSN:	3-03-046316-8
Barcode:	9783030463168

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