The Routledge Handbook of Semantics/ edited by Nick Riemer

By:

RIEMER, N Nick Riemer

Contributor(s):

Nick Riemer Nick Riemer [Editor]

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: London : Routledge, 2016.Description: xvi, 533 p.: 26 cmISBN:

9780415661737

Subject(s):

LOC classification:

DUCE P325 .R78

Online resources:

http://172.20.27.22:4000/handle/123456789/74

Summary: Semantics is the study of meaning—in some sense. In what sense? According to a common view, semantics concerns inter alia the relation between words and the world—in particular, their intentional (or representational, aboutness) relations. When a competent user utters “Schnee ist weiss” to make an assertion, she makes a claim about how the world is. What in part enables her to represent the world as being this way is that “Schnee” refers to snow, something satisfies “ist weiss” just in case it’s white, and so “Schnee ist weiss” is true just in case snow is white. As David Lewis (1970: 18) famously put it: “semantics with no treatment of truthconditions is not semantics.” Similar sentiments are found in leading semantics textbooks: http://172.20.27.22:4000/handle/123456789/74

Tags from this library: No tags from this library for this title. Log in to add tags.

Average rating: 0.0 (0 votes)

Holdings
Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	URL	Status
Books	DUCE LIBRARY	Humanities and Social Sciences	DUCE P325 .R78 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Link to resource	Available

Browsing DUCE LIBRARY shelves, Collection: Humanities and Social Sciences Close shelf browser (Hides shelf browser)

Previous								Next
Previous	DUCE P323 .A53 Grammar of names/	DUCE P325 .C77 Glossary of semantics and pragmatics/	DUCE P325 .J28 Semantic structures /	DUCE P325 .R78 The Routledge Handbook of Semantics/	DUCE P37.V94 Thought and language/	DUCE P37.V9413 Thought and language /	DUCE P40.H66 An introduction to sociolinguistics/	Next

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Semantics is the study of meaning—in some sense. In what sense? According to a common
view, semantics concerns inter alia the relation between words and the world—in particular,
their intentional (or representational, aboutness) relations. When a competent user utters
“Schnee ist weiss” to make an assertion, she makes a claim about how the world is. What in part
enables her to represent the world as being this way is that “Schnee” refers to snow, something
satisfies “ist weiss” just in case it’s white, and so “Schnee ist weiss” is true just in case snow
is white. As David Lewis (1970: 18) famously put it: “semantics with no treatment of truthconditions
is not semantics.” Similar sentiments are found in leading semantics textbooks:

http://172.20.27.22:4000/handle/123456789/74

There are no comments on this title.

to post a comment.