Semantics for Descriptions
Distributed for Center for the Study of Language and Information
230 pages
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6 x 9
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© 2001
In our multimedia age, text description presents many conceptual problems: texts, as cultural objects, cannot be interpreted without descriptions of genre, communicative conditions, and language, which positivist approaches have proved unable to provide. Semantics for Descriptions addresses itself as much to linguists as to computer scientists, arguing that rational hermeneutics can offer better descriptive methods by allowing the theoretical and practical conditions of text interpretation to be defined.
Contents
Preface
Chapter I - Interpretation and Understanding
Chapter II - Semantic Theories
Chapter III - Microsemantics
Chapter IV - The Description of Lexical Content
Chapter V - Mesosemantics
Chapter VI - Syntax-Semantics Interactions in a Unification
Chapter VII - Macrosemantics
Epilogue
Appendices
Glossary
References
Symbols and Abbreviations
Index
Chapter I - Interpretation and Understanding
Chapter II - Semantic Theories
Chapter III - Microsemantics
Chapter IV - The Description of Lexical Content
Chapter V - Mesosemantics
Chapter VI - Syntax-Semantics Interactions in a Unification
Chapter VII - Macrosemantics
Epilogue
Appendices
Glossary
References
Symbols and Abbreviations
Index
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