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by Paul Elbourne

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Our outstanding ability to communicate is a distinguishing features of our species. To communicate is to convey meaning, but what is meaning? How do words combine to give us the meanings of sentences? And what makes a statement ambiguous or nonsensical? These questions and many others are addressed in Paul Elbourne's fascinating guide. He opens by asking what kinds of things the meanings of words and sentences could be: are they, for example, abstract objects or psychological entities? He then looks at how we understand a sequence of words we have never heard before; he considers to what extent the meaning of a sentence can be derived from the words it contains and how to account for the meanings that can't be; and he examines the roles played by time, place, and the shared and unshared assumptions of speakers and hearers. He looks at how language interacts with thought and the intriguing question of whether what language we speak affects the way we see the world.

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  • Title Meaning: A Slim Guide to Semantics
  • Author Paul Elbourne
  • Binding Hardback
  • Edition First Edition
  • Pages 184
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Oxford University Press
  • Publication date 2011-12-01
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Dust Cover, Illustrated, Index, Table of Contents
  • ISBN 9780199585830 / 0199585830
  • Weight 0.75 lbs (0.34 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.6 x 5.4 x 0.7 in (21.84 x 13.72 x 1.78 cm)
  • Category Language Arts / Linguistics / Literacy
  • Library of Congress subjects Semantics
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2011934699
  • Dewey Decimal Code 401.43

About the author

Paul Elbourne is Reader in Semantics at Queen Mary, University of London. He is the author of Situations and Individuals (MIT Press, 2005) and numerous articles in linguistics and philosophy journals.
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