The meaning of expressions in a language is equivalent to the way they are used in a given language community Views of this nature are central to the assumptions underlying usage theories of meaning and action theoretical semantics The first major section of the book provides an overview of approaches to establishing an action theoretical semantics and the productive aspects these approaches have engendered Wittgenstein ordinary language philosophy speech act theory the discussion sparked off by Grice game theoretical semantics philologically oriented semantics etc The second major part is given over to a discussion of central problems of action theoretical semantics fundamental concepts truth conditions and use conditions compositional meaning forms of meaning description literal meaning and variety of uses etc

Bedeutung, Gebrauch und sprachliche Handlung: Ansatze und Probleme einer handlungstheoretischen Semantik aus linguistischer Sicht PDF

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