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On What We Mean de Arnold J. Chien

On What We Mean

Autor Arnold J. Chien
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 8 noi 2002
In On What We Mean, Arnold Chien discusses the meaning of a speaker, a notion we use in everyday conversation. Speaker's meaning is a fundamental notion of pragmatics, i.e. the study of the relation between words and speakers. Yet everyday speaker's meaning has not been systematically studied in philosophy or linguistics. Chien's approach to these issues is to take a speaker's meaning as an answer to "what do you (s/he) mean" (WDYM) questions. He then analyzes WDYM-questions in terms of Bas van Fraassen's analysis of why-questions, according to which, a question consists of a set of parameters whose values vary according to the context. The constraints on speaker's meanings are analyzed in terms of certain constraints on answers to WDYM-questions. The account is extended to metaphor, understood to be a kind of conceptual indeterminacy.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780761824176
ISBN-10: 0761824170
Pagini: 236
Dimensiuni: 150 x 228 x 19 mm
Greutate: 0.35 kg
Ediția:Revised
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția University Press of America
Locul publicării:New York, United States

Cuprins

Chapter 1 Preface
Chapter 2 Introduction
Chapter 3 The Concept of Speaker's Meaning: Van Fraassen on Why-Questions; WDYM-Questions; Answers to WDYM-Questions; Gricean Speaker's Meaning; Relevance Implicatures and Speaker's Meaning
Chapter 4 What is Said Versus What is Believed: Ambiguity and Speaker's Meaning; Ellipsis and Speaker's Meaning; Conceptual Reasons, First Considerations; The Disquotational Principles; Ambiguity Revisited; Ellipsis Revisited
Chapter 5 Competence: Burge on the Role of Examples; Projection Constraints; Idiolects, Conceptual Reasons and "Usage"; Conceptual Reasons Constrained, Part One; Psychological Indeterminacy
Chapter 6 Metaphor: Metaphor and Speaker's Meaning; Metaphor and Conceptual Reasons; Similarity; Metaphoricity; Conceptual Reasons Constrained, Part Two; The Demand for Explanation
Chapter 7 Notes
Chapter 8 Bibliography
Chapter 9 Index

Recenzii

Arnold Chien takes on the important and neglected question of the meanings of abstract and semantically fluid terms such as 'clever,' 'internal,' and 'freedom.' Chien develops a novel account of the relation between conventional and speaker meaning, and gives detailed and subtle application to a wide range of linguistic phenomena, including ambiguity, ellipsis, competence and metaphor, as well as surrounding issues in the philosophy of language and mind. 'On What We Mean' is an original and impressivework.
Arnold Chien's book tackles the familiar notion of speaker's meaning with remarkably productive results. First he shows that a surprising wealth of previously unexplored issues around this concept merit careful study. Along the way he delves deeply into the underexplored but pervasive phenomenon of 'conceptual indeterminacy.' He gives a central place in linguistic competence to knowledge of constraints on possible (potentially novel) speaker's meanings. He also applies his framework to a wide range ofphenomena in pragmatics, explaining and unifying them in an illuminating way. This is a comprehensive, rigorous, and original work which will interest researchers in semantics, pragmatics, and philosophy of language and mind.