Meaning And Mental Representations (Advances In Semiotiics)

Description:
This is an important collection of original essays by well-known scholars debating the questions of logical versus psychologically-based interpretations of language.

Review:
' ... An excellent collection ... ' Journal of Language & Social Psychology

Table of Contents:
Introduction: Marco Santambrogio and Patrizia Violi On the Circumstantial Relation between Meaning and Content: Jon Barwise On Truth. A Fiction: Umberto Eco Quantification, Roles and Domains: Gilles Fauconnier Conceptual Semantics: Ray Jackendoff How Is Meaning Mentally Represented?: Philip N. Johnson-Laird Cognitive Semantics: George Lakoff The Analysis of Nominal Compounds: Wendy G. Lehnert Knowledge Representation in People and Machines: Roger Schank and Alex Kass Identity in Intensional Logic: Subjective Semantics: Bas Van Fraassen Reference and Its Role in Computational Models of Mental Representation: Yorick Wilks