Download or read book Literary Semantics written by Trevor Eaton and published by Melrose Press, Limited. This book was released on 2010 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'This is stimulating: the woolly blankets are being dragged off - one hopes that Mr Eaton will expand this into a leisurely treatise. He seems big enough and sure enough to confront Dr. I. A. Richards on his own level.' Extract from a review in the Times Literary Supplement Nov 24 1966.
Download or read book The semantics of literature written by Trevor Eaton and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2019-01-14 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No detailed description available for "The semantics of literature".
Download or read book The Literary Semantics of K lid sa written by Hira Lal Shukla and published by Gyan Books. This book was released on 1987 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book lays special stress on the part played by Kalidasa in the literary process and his contributing to the intellectual life of Indian society. Offers the hope of methodological support when problems arise and which necessitate answers from several branches of learning. Deals with some burning questions posed by literary criticism in our to wee.
Download or read book The Senses of the Text written by William C. Dowling and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 1999-01-01 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent years the notion of determinate meaning?the idea that a word or a line in a literary text means one thing rather than another thing, X rather than Y?has been widely rejected in the name of Derrida and diffärance, reader-response criticism, and "ideological" approaches proclaiming meaning to be no more than a site of political contestation. ø Yet determinate meaning, says William C. Dowling, cannot be rejected in this way. Like the ratio named by p or the primeness of prime numbers in mathematics, it has been there all along, waiting for our theories to catch up. The proof that this is so, he argues, is today most compellingly available in the New Intensionalism of Jerrold J. Katz, which provides a powerful demonstration that the method of "close reading" developed by New Criticism remains the only valid basis for higher-order interpretation. For readers with no technical background in linguistics or logic, The Senses of the Text provides a clear and easily-understood introduction to the "Chomskyan revolution" in linguistic theory and to major issues in the philosophy of language, including the work of Frege, Wittgenstein, Quine, Carnap, Kripke, and Davidson.
Download or read book Essays in Literary Semantics written by Trevor Eaton and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Semantics of Natural Language written by D. Davidson and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 781 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The idea that prompted the conferenee for which many of these papers were written, and that inspired this book, is stated in the Editorial Introduction reprinted below from Volume 21 of Synthese. The present volume contains the artieles in Synthese 21, Numbers 3-4 and Synthese 22, Numbers 1-2. In addition, it ineludes new papers by Saul Kripke, James McCawley, John R. Ross, and Paul Ziff, and reprints 'Grammar and Philosophy' by P. F. Strawson. Strawson's artiele first appeared in the Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, Volume 70, and is reprinted with the kind permission of the author and the Aristotelian Society. We also repeat our thanks to the Olivetti Companyand Edizione di Comunita of Milan for permission to inelude the paper by Dana Scott; it also appeared in Synthese 21. DONALO DAVIDSON GILBERT HARMAN EDITORIAL INTRODUCTION The success of linguistics in treating naturallanguages as formal syntactic systems has aroused the interest of a number of linguists in a paralleI or related development of semantics. For the most part quite independ ently, many philosophers and logicians have reeently been applying formai semantic methods to structures increasingly like naturallanguages. While differenees in training, method and vocabulary tend to veil the fact, philosophers and linguists are converging, it seerns, on a common set of interrelated probiems. Sinee philosophers and linguists are working on the same, or very similar, probiems, it would obviously be instructive to compare notes." --
Download or read book Literary Semantics written by and published by . This book was released on 2016-04-30 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Semantics written by James R. Hurford and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1983-04-28 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduces the major elements of semantics in a simple, step-by-step fashion. Sections of explanation and examples are followed by practice exercises with answers and comment provided.
Download or read book Literary Semantics written by Trevor Eaton and published by . This book was released on 2009-01-01 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book illustrates how an original, simple but philosophically potent idea is developed into a theory for the human sciences -- covering philosophy, logic, epistemology, ethics, aesthetics, ontology, morality, religion, neurology, linguistics, psychology, anthropology, sociology, history, and education. A structured Glossary provides a roadmap to navigate these complexities. This revolutionary idea -- a trichotomy of knowledge, a three-fold division which includes everything that could ever be considered knowledge in the context of how the brain treats knowledge -- leads to theories of truth/affidence, value, the semantics of literature, modality, style and fictionality. Literary studies are divided into semantics of literature -- historical research which includes experimental inquiry into the act of poetic creation; and semics -- the study of reading acts: these components are further sub-divided within a modal theory, and arguments presented that venture beyond literature in exploring some of the cognitive problems which literary semantics raises. In the chapter Practical Semics, the author -- as The Chaucer Man, a professional performer in Middle English of Chaucer's works develops frame theory to analyse a passage from The Miller's Tale, arguing that received modal-verb categories cannot cope with the layers of fictionality in The Canterbury Tales. Trevor Eaton's theory led to the founding of Journal of Literary Semantics, now in its 37th volume. The Fifth Conference of the International Association of Literary Semantics is to take place at the University of Genoa in 2010. This volume demonstrates conclusively how literary semantics can throw light on and organize the theory of literature. A final chapter presents a formal document for discussion offered to readers of the Journal (founded by Eaton in 1972, and published by Mouton de Gruyter). The author then responds to two critiques of the document, made by distinguished linguists.
Download or read book The Search for Literary Meaning written by A. Peter Foulkes and published by Peter Lang Group Ag, International Academic Publishers. This book was released on 1975 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The principal aim of the study is to comment on institutional literary interpretation against the current background of various reformist tendencies in literary studies. Descriptive and analytic techniques derived from semiotics are used in an attempt both to illuminate the function of interpretation within systems of literary education and to examine critically the theoretical assumptions which underlie many contemporary approaches to the subject.
Download or read book Linguistic Semantics written by John Lyons and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1995-11-30 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This successor to Language, Meaning and Context provides an invaluable introduction to linguistic semantics.
Download or read book Literary Meaning written by Wendell V. Harris and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In this clearly written and accessible book, (Wendell) Harris sets out to expose the inadequacies of current methods and trends in literary criticism. . . . The book's greatest strength is its lucid presentation of critical works, which are then shown to be compromised by fallacies and flaws".-- CHOICE.
Download or read book Third Conference of the International Association of Literary Semantics written by International Association of Literary Semantics and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Elements of Formal Semantics written by Yoad Winter and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2016-04-08 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introducing some of the foundational concepts, principles and techniques in the formal semantics of natural language, Elements of Formal Semantics outlines the mathematical principles that underlie linguistic meaning. Making use of a wide range of concrete English examples, the book presents the most useful tools and concepts of formal semantics in an accessible style and includes a variety of practical exercises so that readers can learn to utilise these tools effectively. For readers with an elementary background in set theory and linguistics or with an interest in mathematical modelling, this fascinating study is an ideal introduction to natural language semantics. Designed as a quick yet thorough introduction to one of the most vibrant areas of research in modern linguistics today this volume reveals the beauty and elegance of the mathematical study of meaning.
Download or read book The Senses of the Text written by William C. Dowling and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 1999-01-01 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent years the notion of determinate meaning?the idea that a word or a line in a literary text means one thing rather than another thing, X rather than Y?has been widely rejected in the name of Derrida and diffärance, reader-response criticism, and "ideological" approaches proclaiming meaning to be no more than a site of political contestation. Yet determinate meaning, says William C. Dowling, cannot be rejected in this way. Like the ratio named by p or the primeness of prime numbers in mathematics, it has been there all along, waiting for our theories to catch up. The proof that this is so, he argues, is today most compellingly available in the New Intensionalism of Jerrold J. Katz, which provides a powerful demonstration that the method of "close reading" developed by New Criticism remains the only valid basis for higher-order interpretation. For readers with no technical background in linguistics or logic, The Senses of the Text provides a clear and easily-understood introduction to the "Chomskyan revolution" in linguistic theory and to major issues in the philosophy of language, including the work of Frege, Wittgenstein, Quine, Carnap, Kripke, and Davidson.
Download or read book Semantics Stylistics Pedagogics written by V. Prakasam and published by Allied Publishers. This book was released on 2018-01-30 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Meaning, being the core of the existential reality of language, need to be comprehended and analyzed, properly grasped and talked about. The first part of this book, Semantics, Stylistics and Pedagogics, is planned to strengthen our comprehension of the ‘meaning’ facet of language at ‘isolable’ level (lexical) and also at ‘combinatorial’ level (discoursal). The way ‘meaning’ is viewed and analyzed at different times and in different intellecting traditions is presented in the first three chapters which constitute the part called Semantics. The fourth chapter constitutes the second part of the book—Stylistics—dealing with the way ‘meaning’ is juiced out from a text. One can even say that we actually juice out meaning for a text because the meaning is actually a response from the aesthetic and cognitive capabilities of a reader. So the ‘grasping’ of meaning of a text is again a dynamic process comprising denotative, connotative and suggestive responses. The third part of the book is ‘Pedagogics’ which subsumes ‘androgogics’ too. Here we see how the language teacher who has comprehended and grasped ‘meaning’ conveys it to the student in the classroom. This conveying is actually facilitating comprehension and grasping in the minds of the students.
Download or read book Language Literature Meaning written by John Odmark and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 1980-01-01 with total page 581 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essays in this two-volume anthology provide the reader with an overview of current Czech, Polish and Hungarian research in language, literature and meaning as well as some new perspectives on the major theoretical contributions of Roman Ingarden, Georg Lukács and Jan Mukařovský. For the most part, the emphasis is on Poetics and Literary Theory; however, in some of the essays the focus shifts to such related disciplines as Aesthetics, Linguistics and Semiotics. The heterogeneity of this collection reflects the broad spectrum of interests and approaches to problems of theory being pursued at present in Poland, Hungary and Czechoslovakia. Much of the work being done in these countries remains relatively unknown outside of Eastern Europe. This anthology is an attempt to rectify this situation and make better known the nature and extent of research which promises new insights into a whole range of phenomena in language, literature and culture.
