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Logic, Language and Meaning - 18th Amsterdam Colloquium, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, December 19-21, 2011, Revised Selected Papers (Paperback, 2012 ed.)
Maria Aloni, Vadim Kimmelman, Floris Roelofsen, Galit Sassoon, Katrin Schulz, …
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This book contains the revised papers presented at the 8th
Amsterdam Colloquium 2011, held in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, in
December 2011. The 46 thoroughly refereed and revised contributions
out of 137 submissions presented together with 2 invited talks are
organized in five sections. The first section contains the invited
contributions. The second, third and fourth sections incorporate
submitted contributions to the three thematic workshops that were
hosted by the Colloquium and addressed the following topics:
inquisitiveness; formal semantics and pragmatics of sign languages,
formal semantic evidence. The final section presents the submitted
contributions to the general program.
This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC
BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. It is free to read at Oxford
Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and
selected open access locations. This book presents a new logical
framework to capture the meaning of sentences in conversation. The
traditional approach equates meaning with truth-conditions: to know
the meaning of a sentence is to know under which circumstances it
is true. The reason for this is that linguistic and philosophical
investigations are usually carried out in a logical framework that
was originally designed to characterize valid argumentation.
However, argumentation is neither the sole, nor the primary
function of language. One task that language more widely and
ordinarily fulfils is to enable the exchange of information between
conversational participants. In the framework outlined in this
volume, inquisitive semantics, information exchange is seen as a
process of raising and resolving issues. Inquisitive semantics
provides a new formal notion of meaning, which makes it possible to
model various concepts that are crucial for the analysis of
linguistic information exchange in a more refined and more
principled way than has been possible in previous frameworks.
Importantly, it also allows an integrated treatment of statements
and questions. The first part of the book presents the framework in
detail, while the second demonstrates its benefits in the semantic
analysis of questions, coordination, modals, conditionals, and
intonation. The book will be of interest to researchers and
students from advanced undergraduate level upwards in the fields of
semantics, pragmatics, philosophy of language, and logic.
This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC
BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. It is free to read at Oxford
Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and
selected open access locations. This book presents a new logical
framework to capture the meaning of sentences in conversation. The
traditional approach equates meaning with truth-conditions: to know
the meaning of a sentence is to know under which circumstances it
is true. The reason for this is that linguistic and philosophical
investigations are usually carried out in a logical framework that
was originally designed to characterize valid argumentation.
However, argumentation is neither the sole, nor the primary
function of language. One task that language more widely and
ordinarily fulfils is to enable the exchange of information between
conversational participants. In the framework outlined in this
volume, inquisitive semantics, information exchange is seen as a
process of raising and resolving issues. Inquisitive semantics
provides a new formal notion of meaning, which makes it possible to
model various concepts that are crucial for the analysis of
linguistic information exchange in a more refined and more
principled way than has been possible in previous frameworks.
Importantly, it also allows an integrated treatment of statements
and questions. The first part of the book presents the framework in
detail, while the second demonstrates its benefits in the semantic
analysis of questions, coordination, modals, conditionals, and
intonation. The book will be of interest to researchers and
students from advanced undergraduate level upwards in the fields of
semantics, pragmatics, philosophy of language, and logic.
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