The Social Foundations of Meaning

An empirical case study is used here to analyze linguistic meaning as it is embedded in complex social behavior. The whole of a natural signalling system - its nonlinguistic conventions, pragmatics and semantics - is considered. Three sections analyze: the relevant conventional facts; conventional u...

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Main Author: Savigny, Eike v
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Berlin, Heidelberg Springer Berlin Heidelberg 1988, 1988
Edition:1st ed. 1988
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Collection: Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
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505 0 |a § 18 The first utterance meaning rules -- § 19 Background conventions and suspected signals -- § 20 Strengthening the description -- § 21 The meaning of circumstances -- § 22 Theoretical fruitfulness -- IV Conventional utterance meaning -- § 23 Language use: Conventional behavior calling for a special kind of description -- § 24 Conventional utterance meaning defined -- § 25 Neptune: Conventional perturbations and their best explanation -- § 26 Expressions and expressive power -- § 27 The diversity of language -- § 28 The theoretical character of the speech act of reference -- V Against intentionalism -- § 29 Preliminaries -- § 30 Ignored motives for making constative utterances -- § 31 Gricean intentions: Irrelevant and unlikely -- § 32 Speakers’ meaning and conventional meaning: Empirically connected -- § 33 The Thomistic fallacy -- § 34Genitives subjectivus and genitives objectivus -- § 35 Declarations of meaning --  
505 0 |a VI The same case for sentence meaning: NIVEAU -- § 36 The new problem -- § 37 Grouping signs by positing new entities -- § 38 Some semantic features: Ambiguity, negation, anaphora -- VII Some results for sentence meaning -- § 39 The point of having sentence meanings -- § 40 Sentence meaning defined -- § 41 Two different tasks in the study of sentence meaning -- § 42 The theoretical character of sentence meaning -- § 43 Sentence meaning is conceptually irreducible -- Epilogue -- § 44 Rules of language -- Appendix I: Complete description of NIVEAU zero -- Appendix II: Complete description of NIVEAU. 
505 0 |a Introductory summary -- I Conventional meaning: The pretheoretical intuition -- § 1 Conventional meaning vs. natural meaning -- § 2 Conventional meaning vs. speaker’s meaning -- § 3 Conventional meaning and correct understanding -- § 4 Correct understanding: The conventional result principle -- § 5 Conventional systems evolving into languages -- § 6 Communication: Redistributing situational roles -- § 7 The strategy of language description -- II Compliance with rules -- § 8 The weak Hart analysis of rule — guided behavior -- § 9 Why dismiss the ’internal aspect’? -- § 10 Hart attacks repelled -- § 11 An attractive alternative: Lewis conventions -- § 12 No rigid problem — solving -- § 13 Choice rules -- § 14 Knowledge of conventions -- § 15 Can meaning sneak in via common knowledge? -- § 16 Conventional make — ups and how to detect them -- III A case for utterance meaning: NIVEAU zero -- § 17 A plea for case studies --  
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520 |a An empirical case study is used here to analyze linguistic meaning as it is embedded in complex social behavior. The whole of a natural signalling system - its nonlinguistic conventions, pragmatics and semantics - is considered. Three sections analyze: the relevant conventional facts; conventional utterance meaning in terms of conventional facts; and, finally, sentence meaning in terms of conventional utterance meaning. Linguistic meaning is seen to be derived from meaningful social behavior rather than from goal-directed behavior of individuals. A number of new results on pragmatic and semantic meaning are reached