The Semantics of Media

Softcover Nachdruck of the original 1. Auflage 1997
ISBN: 978-94-010-6383-8
Verlag: Springer Netherlands

Buch, Englisch, Band 64, 141 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 255 g

Reihe: Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy

Media are objects with content and character that we describe using in- phrases: ... Like the propositional attitudes, these objects present a variety of hard problems for semantic and philosophical analysis. is an organized exploration of fundamental questions in the semantics of media.
The first three chapters set out a straightforward model within the possible-worlds framework, and consider how it might account for a range of notions applying to media generally: implicit vs. explicit content, propositional vs. individual content, causal vs. intentional content and the idea of a single World of the Medium.
The final three chapters examine ways of elaborating the model to cover a range of phenomena keyed to the functionality of particular forms of media. Chapter Four is a discussion of fiction and our apparent reference to fictional characters. Chapter Five deals with the phenomenon of viewpoint in pictorial media. Chapter Six is a study of interactions between users and characters of media centering on the puzzling case of .
will be of interest to specialists in the fields of linguistics, philosophy and communications.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Ross, J.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Media.- 1. Language and the Study of Content.- 2. The Notion of Media.- 3. Media and Attitudes.- 4. The Mechanics of Media.- 2. Basic Propositional Content.- 1. Possible-Worlds Semantics.- 2. Modality.- 3. Counterfactuals.- 4. Media.- 5. The Language L.- 6. The Semantics of Media Terms.- 7. Validity in L.- 8. Summary — The Intensional Package.- 3. Reflections on Content.- 1. Explicit and Implicit Content.- 2. Appearance and Existence.- 3. ‘The World of the Medium’.- 4. With Reference to Characters.- 1. The Particularity Problem.- 2. Character-Sentences.- 3. The Problem of Accidental Reference.- 5. The Semantics of Viewpoint.- 1. Viewpoint.- 2. Categorial Semantics.- 3. Property Semantics.- 4. Viewpoint and the Viewer.- 6. The Semantics of Interaction.- 1. The Problem of Interactions.- 2. Seeing.- 3. Seeing in Films I — The Causal Account.- 4. Content and Causation.- 5. Seeing in Films II — The Intensional Account.- 6. The Intensional Account Probed.- 7. Contexts as Media.- Notes.- References.