Living Words : Meaning Underdetermination and the Dynamic Lexicon
by
Peter Ludlow
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Hardback or Cased Book
ISBN-10
0198712057
ISBN-13
9780198712053
Publisher
Oxford University Press
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Oxford University Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
May 8th, 2014
Print length
204 Pages
Weight
382 grams
Dimensions
22.30 x 14.80 x 1.70 cms
Product Classification:
linguisticsPhilosophy of languagePhilosophy
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Peter Ludlow shows how word meanings are much more dynamic than we might have supposed, and explores how they are modulated even during everyday conversation. The resulting view is radical, and has far-reaching consequences for our political and legal discourse, and for enduring puzzles in the foundations of semantics, epistemology, and logic.
Peter Ludlow shows how word meanings are much more dynamic than we might have supposed, and explores how meanings are modulated (changed) even during the course of our everyday conversations. When we engage with communicative partners we build micro-languages on the fly--languages that may be fleeting, but which serve our joint interests. Sometimes we sync up on word meanings without reflection, but in many cases we debate the proper modulation of the meanings of our words. Living Words explores the norms that govern the ways in which we litigate word meanings. The resulting view is radical, and Ludlow shows that it has far-reaching consequences for our political and legal discourse and also for some of the deepest and most intractable puzzles that have gripped English-language philosophy for the past 100 years--including puzzles in the foundations of semantics, epistemology, and logic.
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