The building blocks of meaning : ideas for a philosophical grammar /

The shaping of complex meanings depends on punctual and relational coding and inferencing. Coding is viewed as a vector which can run either from expression to content or from concepts to (linguistic) forms to mark independent conceptual relations. While coding relies on systematic resources interna...

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Bibliographische Detailangaben
1. Verfasser: Prandi, Michele, 1949-
Format: Licensed eBooks
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : J. Benjamins Pub. Co., ©2004.
Schriftenreihe:Human cognitive processing ; v. 13.
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Inhaltsangabe:
  • The Building Blocks of Meaning; Editorial page; Title page; LCC page; Table of contents; Acknowledgments; Foreword; Part I: The semiotic background; Chapter 1. Meanings and messages; Chapter 2. The ideation of complex meanings; Chapter 3. At the roots of complex meanings; Part II: The conceptual factors of signi®cance; Chapter 4. Consistency criteria within philosophic and linguistic reflexion; Chapter 5. The formal framework of natural ontology; Chapter 6. Lexical structures and lexical information; Chapter 7. Lexical structures, lexical information and consistency criteria.