Metasemantics and Possible Expressions

1. Auflage 2024
ISBN: 978-3-631-91854-8
Verlag: Peter Lang

Buch, Englisch, Band 21, 170 Seiten, Format (B × H): 153 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 340 g

Reihe: Studies in Philosophy of Language and Linguistics

Foundational theories of meaning, and the broader metasemantic projects they contribute to, promise to answer the seemingly simple yet intractable question of what meaning consists in and where it comes from. Naturally, they build upon expressions that we already know and recognize to develop their positions. This focus on language as we know it, however, leaves aside the no less significant matter of language in terms of possible expressions – the strange and distant expanses of language beyond our everyday stock of expressions.
This work sets out to explore possibilities in the context of the meaning of simple expressions. In the process, words, phrases, and sentences are thoroughly explicated as types of expressions before being leveraged to engineer unique and unusual possible words. These exotic possibilities are then confronted with two major positions on meaning in philosophy, introducing novel difficulties and suggesting the significance of this otherwise neglected perspective on language.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Lemanek, Kamil

Weitere Mitwirkende

Stalmaszczyk, Piotr

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chapter One — Introduction — Chapter Two — Structures and Phenomena — Chapter Three — Possibility and Possibilities — Chapter Four — Atomism and Correlates — Chapter Five — Inferentialism and Recursion — Chapter Six — Conclusion — Appendix: Impossible Words — Reference List — Index

Über Autor(innen)

Kamil Lemanek is an assistant professor at Maria Curie-Sklodowska University. His area of expertise centers on the philosophy of language and mind, with an interest in interdisciplinary work across several fields.