Format:
xiii, 234 Seiten
ISBN:
9781108423281
,
9781108437202
Series Statement:
Key topics in semantics and pragmatics
Content:
Foundations -- Attitude reports and proper names -- The de dicto/de re ambiguity -- De se attitude reports -- Desire reports and beyond.
Content:
"An important idea in generative grammar is that form does not always follow function; that is, not all syntactic behavior is explainable by appeal to semantic considerations. But some syntactic behavior is so explainable, and surely it is no accident that many of the verbs and adjectives we use for describing our mental lives have the ability to embed sentences or sentence-like constituents: it is emblematic of what philosophers of mind call intentionality, which is the capacity of the mind to represent mind-external objects. Beliefs and desires, for example, have objects, and often those objects are of the sort that we can use sentences to name or describe them. Perhaps not all of the mental states and actions described by the words in (1) work like this in every situation. Maybe, for example, I can have "undirected" anger (ultimately, this is a question for psychologists or philosophers, not linguists). But I can also be angry about something or angry that something is the case"--
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781108525718
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe Grano, Thomas Attitude reports Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2021 ISBN 9781108534413
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe Grano, Thomas Attitude reports Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2021 ISBN 9781108525718
Language:
English
Subjects:
Comparative Studies. Non-European Languages/Literatures
Keywords:
Propositionale Einstellung
;
Modalität
;
Intentionalität
;
Semantik
;
Pragmatik
DOI:
10.1017/9781108525718
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