As the title of her book indicates, Emma Borg is a minimalist with regard to semantics and, like many minimalists, sees herself as defending her patch from the encroachments of the ‘contextualist hoards’. She is, therefore, taking up a particular position within what is seen by many philosophers of language as a foundational debate concerning the true bearers of semantic (truth-conditional) con...

This research is entitled “Psychological Implications in Poetic Images of the Collection of: A Linguistic Study”. study discusses types meaning. Generally, meaning categorized into two parts: semantic and pragmatic Besides, it also interpretations artistic phenomena psychological implications shows their implications. Meaning generally a multidisciplinary sophisticated concept; hence has been d...

The present study is important since precedent phenomena, transmitting both traditional and newly created cultural values, are more widely represented in the mass media language. paper suggests a cognitive approach aimed at identifying role of knowledge (linguistic, non-linguistic, individual) forming unit meaning, being primary object research science. Examples universal names (Napoleon, Cinde...

the body-part term dast ‘hand’ is investigated in this article as used in the first part of 160 farsi compound nouns. the questions are: how is the semantic change pattern of hand used in persian compound nouns? also how the collective mind and social/ cultural memory of persian linguistic society can be accounted for and compared with chinese and english? the aim is investigation of semantic c...

We show how cultural selection for learnability during the process of linguistic evolution can be visualized using a simple iterated learning model. Computational models of linguistic evolution typically focus on the nature of, and conditions for, stable states. We take a novel approach and focus on understanding the process of linguistic evolution itself. What kind of evolutionary system is th...

Introduction It is now possible to employ a fully communicative approach to language teaching while at the same time attending to grammatical structure, but only if one can decisively abandon a mindset in which structure consists of rules governing form only and fully adopt instead a view that structure consists of forms that encode meanings, which speakers choose in order to communicate messag...

I'm all for pragmatics. But I don't think it helps the cause to blur the boundary between semantics and pragmatics. The purpose of this chapter is to explain why. The basic reason is this. Even though, as people have been pointing out for some years now, the linguistic meaning of a given sentence generally underdetermines what a speaker means in uttering it, it does not follow that linguistic m...

When people talk, they generally talk about things, events, and situations in the world. They are able to do this because they represent connections between the expressions of their language and extra-linguistic phenomena in a fully systematic way. The meaning of a sentence in a language is, to a large extent, dependent upon the ways in which the words and phrases from which it is constructed c...

Morphology is the aspect of language concerned with the internal structure of words, and languages vary in the extent to which they rely on morphological structure. Consequently, it is not clear whether morphology is a basic element of a linguistic structure or whether it emerges from systematic regularities between the form and meaning of words. Here, we looked for evidence of morphological st...