Living words : meaning underdetermination and the dynamic lexicon

Living words : meaning underdetermination and the dynamic lexicon / Peter Ludlow.

Peter Ludlow shows how word meanings are much more dynamic than we might have supposed, and explores how they are modulated even during everyday conversation. The resulting view is radical, and has far-reaching consequences for our political and legal discourse, and for enduring puzzles in the found...

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Main Author: Ludlow, Peter, 1957- (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, [2014]
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
Word (Linguistics)
Grammar, Comparative and general > Morphology.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > Grammar & Punctuation.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > Linguistics > Syntax.
Grammar, Comparative and general > Morphology
Philology & Linguistics.
Languages & Literatures.
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Summary:Peter Ludlow shows how word meanings are much more dynamic than we might have supposed, and explores how they are modulated even during everyday conversation. The resulting view is radical, and has far-reaching consequences for our political and legal discourse, and for enduring puzzles in the foundations of semantics, epistemology, and logic.
Physical Description:1 online resource (x, 189 pages)
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (pages 165-175) and index.
ISBN:9780191781407
0191781401
9780191020025
0191020028
Source of Description, Etc. Note:Print version record.

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