Constructions in Use

Semantics is one of the core disciplines of philosophy of language. There are basically two strands of established theories: use-based and truth-conditional, with the latter being the dominant variety. This dominance has been questioned recently by linguists who embrace a research paradigm that is k...

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description Semantics is one of the core disciplines of philosophy of language. There are basically two strands of established theories: use-based and truth-conditional, with the latter being the dominant variety. This dominance has been questioned recently by linguists who embrace a research paradigm that is known as construction grammar. As construction grammar is use-based, it seems natural to suppose that its success is indirect support for use-based semantics in philosophy. This is true. But there's still a lot to do. Although there are use-based theories that fit quite well with current research in linguistics, they are far from being perfect. In particular, the most popular theory in that area is still tied to some of the main motivations behind truth-conditional semantics. ‘Constructions in Use’ offers an alternative by proposing to let this legacy go. Instead, it argues that philosophical semantics is best off if it goes for an entirely use-based theory.
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spelling doab-20.500.12854ir-698292024-03-24T11:38:03Z Constructions in Use auf der Straße, Alexander Use-based semantics use-based theory construction grammar truth-conditional semantics philosophy of language thema EDItEUR::C Language and Linguistics::CF Linguistics Semantics is one of the core disciplines of philosophy of language. There are basically two strands of established theories: use-based and truth-conditional, with the latter being the dominant variety. This dominance has been questioned recently by linguists who embrace a research paradigm that is known as construction grammar. As construction grammar is use-based, it seems natural to suppose that its success is indirect support for use-based semantics in philosophy. This is true. But there's still a lot to do. Although there are use-based theories that fit quite well with current research in linguistics, they are far from being perfect. In particular, the most popular theory in that area is still tied to some of the main motivations behind truth-conditional semantics. ‘Constructions in Use’ offers an alternative by proposing to let this legacy go. Instead, it argues that philosophical semantics is best off if it goes for an entirely use-based theory. 2021-05-20T15:24:54Z 2021-05-20T15:24:54Z 2021 book ONIX_20210520_9783110720334_6 9783110720334 9783957580337 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/69829 eng Dissertations in Language and Cognition image/jpeg Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110720334 https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110720334 De Gruyter düsseldorf university press 10.1515/9783110720334 10.1515/9783110720334 af2fbfcc-ee87-43d8-a035-afb9d7eef6a5 9783110720334 9783957580337 düsseldorf university press 4 338 open access
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