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Word Meaning and Belief (Hardcover)
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Word Meaning and Belief (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Library Editions: Semantics and Semiology
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First published in 1983, the aim of this book is to diagnose
linguists' failure to advance satisfactory theories of lexical
meaning, then to propose the requirements that such a theory should
meet and, drawing on work in philosophy and psychology, to take the
first steps towards satisfying these requirements. It begins by
discussing the work of Quine on the indeterminacy of translation
and it is shown that attempts by linguists to answer Quine's
arguments by proposing universal 'semantic primitives' or their
equivalents is unsatisfactory. The relation between the theory of
word meaning and the theory of categorisation is explored, and an
alternative to Rosch's 'family resemblance' account of the
'prototype' effect in both nouns and verbs is provided. The author
argues that identification of certain implicit categories like
'action' and 'event' can be related to principles of individuation,
and builds on the work of Kripke and Putnam on proper names and
natural kind terms. This book will be of interest to students of
linguistics and the philosophy of language.
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