Meaning and the Dynamics of Interpretation: Selected Papers of Hans Kamp (Current Research in the Semantics / Pragmatics Interface, Band 29) - Hardcover

Kamp, Hans

 
9789004251915: Meaning and the Dynamics of Interpretation: Selected Papers of Hans Kamp (Current Research in the Semantics / Pragmatics Interface, Band 29)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 900425191X ISBN 13: 9789004251915
Verlag: BRILL ACADEMIC PUB, 2013

Inhaltsangabe

This selection of research papers written by Hans Kamp presents the core of his scientific research on natural language semantics and its relation to logic, philosophy and linguistics. Arranged in six sections, the topics range from philosophical reflection on the foundational issues in the ancient Sorites Paradox with a formal account of its solution, to a detailed account of presuppositions in dynamic semantics.

Ranking among the philosophers with great and lasting influence on formal semantics, Hans Kamp contributed early foundational research to core theoretical topics like temporal reference and vagueness, then pushed the boundaries of the discipline in new and productive directions. Showing the importance of non-truth-functional aspects of meaning, Discourse Representation Theory proved the value of a dynamic approach to interaction of text and context for our understanding of anaphora, word meaning and context-dependence. This collection shows very clearly how Kamp has forged ground-breaking connections among semantics, computation, and mental representation, challenging the once dominant Fregean anti-psychologism, while demonstrating that the best theoretical research can simultaneously yield important computational applications and novel cognitive insights. Barbara Partee, University of Massachussetts Amherst.
Hans Kamp has been rewarded with the Rolf Schock Prize in 2024.

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Klaus von Heusinger, Dr. phil. (1992) and Habilitation (1999) at University of Konstanz, Germany, is Professor in German Linguistics at the University of Cologne. He approaches linguistic analysis from a theoretical as well as empirical point of view and focuses on the semantics and pragmatics of referring expressions in discourse.

The application of logical methods to natural language has long been the key research program of Alice ter Meulen (Ph.D. Stanford, 1980). She has published extensively on a variety of topics in natural language semantics, including (in)definiteness, mass terms, aspect and temporal reference, generics and natural kinds, Montague grammar and Situation Semantics.

The core research interests of Hans Kamp (off. Johan Anthony Willem Kamp, Ph.D. 1968 UCLA) have converged on the question how human beings represent meaning and how those representations enable them to various things with information, such as drawing inferences and making plans for action. Context dependence and vagueness of meaning, and the dynamic character of interpretation are at the core of his well-known account of meaning and interpretation Discourse Representation Theory.

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Verlag
BRILL ACADEMIC PUB
Erscheinungsdatum
2013
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
900425191X
ISBN 13 
9789004251915
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Anzahl der Seiten
696
Herausgeber
Heusinger Klaus, Ter Meulen Alice
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