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Book Summary
In recent decades, many theories of formal semantics of natural language have
undergone what can be called a dynamic turn: they have moved from treating
language as a static system to considering it 'in action' and to taking meanings
as crucially involving 'context-change potentials'. The theories, however,
usually concentrate much more on the hows of the turn than on its whys; and as a
result, the conceptual foundations of dynamic semantics are much less elaborated
than its technical side. This book, based on a conference held in Prague in
September 2001, is a contribution to filling this gap: it consists of papers
addressing, from various sides, the
ISBN-13
9780080441870
Language
English
Binding
Hard Bound
Publisher
Emerald Group Publishing
Publishing Date
2003-10-22
Meaning, Volume 12: The Dynamic Turn (Current Research in the Semantics/Pragmatics Interface)
In recent decades, many theories of formal semantics of natural language have
undergone what can be called a dynamic turn: they have moved from treating
language as a static system to considering it 'in action' and to taking meanings
as crucially involving 'context-change potentials'. The theories, however,
usually concentrate much more on the hows of the turn than on its whys; and as a
result, the conceptual foundations of dynamic semantics are much less elaborated
than its technical side. This book, based on a conference held in Prague in
September 2001, is a contribution to filling this gap: it consists of papers
addressing, from various sides, the