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BL
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861901
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| Main Entry
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Grabarczyk, Paweł
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| Title & Author
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Directival theory of meaning : : from syntax and pragmatics to narrow linguistic content /\ Paweł Grabarczyk.
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| Publication Statement
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Cham, Switzerland :: Springer,, [2019]
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| Series Statement
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Synthese library ;; volume 409
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| Page. NO
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1 online resource (xiv, 238 pages)
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| ISBN
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3030187837
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: 9783030187835
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3030187810
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9783030187811
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| Contents
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Preface -- Chapter 1. The Directival Theory of Meaning -- Chapter 2. Aims and ambitions of the DTM -- Chapter 3. Troubles ahead -- Chapter 4. The DTM among classic theories -- Chapter 5. Stepping outside the original DTM -- Chapter 6. New Directival Theory of Meaning -- Chapter 7. The nDTM among contemporaries -- Afterword.
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| Abstract
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This book presents a new approach to semantics based on Kazimierz Ajdukiewicz's Directival Theory of Meaning (DTM), which in effect reduces semantics of the analysed language to the combination of its syntax and pragmatics. The author argues that the DTM was forgotten because for many years philosophers didn't have conceptual tools to appreciate its innovative nature, and that the theory was far ahead of its time. The book shows how a redesigned and modernised version of the DTM can deliver a new solution to the problem of defining linguistic meaning and that the theory can be understood as a new type of functional role semantics. The defining feature of the DTM is that it presents meaning as a product of constraints on the usage of words. According to the DTM meaning is not use, but the avoidance of misuse.
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| Subject
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Meaning-text theory (Linguistics)
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Meaning-text theory (Linguistics)
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| Dewey Classification
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410.1/84
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| LC Classification
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P325.G73 2019
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