182 Pages
by
Routledge
182 Pages
by
Routledge
179 Pages
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Routledge
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First published in 1983, the aim of this book is to diagnose linguists’ failure to advance satisfactory theories of lexical meaning, then to propose the requirements that such a theory should meet and, drawing on work in philosophy and psychology, to take the first steps towards satisfying these requirements. It begins by discussing the work of Quine on the indeterminacy of translation and it is... Read more
Preface; 1. The Possibility of a Theory of Word Meaning 2. Against Semantic Primitives 3. Naïve Metaphysics 4. Theories of Categorisation 5. Verbs, Prototypes and Family Resemblances 6. Semantic Categories; Bibliography; Index
Biography
S.G. Pulman
