What It All Means: Semantics for Almost Everything Schlenker Philippe
What It All Means: Semantics for Almost Everything Schlenker Philippe How meaning works--from monkey calls to human language, from spoken language to sign language, from gestures to music--and how…
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What It All Means: Semantics for Almost Everything Schlenker Philippe
How meaning works--from monkey calls to human language, from spoken language to sign language, from gestures to music--and how meaning is connected to truth.We communicate through language, connecting what we mean to the words we say. Animals, too, can get their meanings across without words. But humans convey meaning in other ways as well, with facial expressions, hand gestures, and other methods.
He shows that these extraordinarily diverse types of meaning can be studied and compared within a unified approach--one in which the notion of truth plays a central role. In What It All Means, linguist Philippe Schlenker explains how meaning works, from monkey calls to human language, from spoken language to sign language, from gestures to music. "It's just semantics" is often said dismissively.
But Schlenker shows that semantics--the study of meaning--is an