What it all means : semantics for (almost) everything /
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| Author / Creator: | Schlenker, Philippe, author. |
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| Imprint: | Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2022] |
| Description: | xxi, 462 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/13012678 |
Table of Contents:
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Prologue: Primate Meanings
- 1. Meaning In The Wild
- Part I. The Building Blocks of Meaning
- 2. Visible Logic: Sign Language and Pronouns
- 3. Me, Me, Me! Perspectives in Language
- 4. Nouns and Verbs: Objects and Events
- 5. Beyond the Here and Now I: From Objects to Situations
- 6. Beyond the Here and Now II: Describing and Classifying Objects and Situations
- Part II. Using Meaning
- 7. Logic Machine I: Predicate Logic
- 8. Logic Machine II: English as a Formal Language
- 9. Logic Machine III: The Expressive Power of Human Language
- 10. Not Quite Saying It: Focus and Implicatures
- 11. Not at Issue: Presuppositions, Supplements, and Expressives
- Part III. Extending Meaning
- 12. Iconicity Revisited: Sign with Iconicity Versus Speech with Gestures
- 13. Grammar in Gestures
- 14. Meaning in Gestures
- 15. Meaning in Music
- Epilogue: The Limits of Truth
- 16. The Limits of Truth I: The Riddle of Paradoxes
- 17. The Limits of Truth II: Solving the Riddle of Paradoxes
- Conclusion
- Appendix: Phonology, Morphology, and Syntax in Speech and in Sign
- Glossary
- Going Further
- Notes
- Illustration Sources
- Index
