Studies in Functional Logical Semiotics of Natural Language

Pelc, Jerzy

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“…Stainton, 2004; Odrowa̧ż‐Sypniewska, 2017); we might even use sentences in a nominal manner (cf. Pelc, 1971a); we may use personal pronouns and indexicals in general in a variety of different ways (cf. Kijania‐Placek, 2012; Kijania‐Placek, 2016).…”

Section: Implications and Problemsmentioning

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Utterances, Sub‐utterances and Token‐Reflexivity

Ciecierski

2020

Theoria

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The popular interpretation of token‐reflexivism states that at the level of logical form, indexicals and demonstratives are disguised descriptions that employ complex demonstratives or special quotation‐mark names involving particular tokens of the appropriate expression‐types. In this article I first demonstrate that this interpretation of token‐reflexivism is only one of many, and that it is better to think of token‐reflexivism as denoting a family of distinct theoretical frameworks. Second, I contrast two interpretations of the idea of the token‐reflexive paraphrase of an indexical sentence. The utterance approach claims that token‐reflexive paraphrases involve tokens of entire utterances. The sub‐utterance approach maintains that token‐reflexive paraphrases involve tokens of the particular indexical words used in the utterance. Next, I pose a problem that shows that neither of the two approaches is correct. The problem shows that the only viable version of the token‐reflexive proposition must somehow take into account the referential intentions of the speaker of the context. Therefore I conclude the article by sketching the framework of restricted intentional token‐reflexivism. I argue that it is an attractive semantic theory of distributed utterances that, among other things, enables automatic and intentional indexicals to be distinguished.

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Section: Implications and Problemsmentioning

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Utterances, Sub‐utterances and Token‐Reflexivity

Ciecierski

2020

Theoria

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“…This concept is a logical pragmaticsemantic one and has certain connections with the understanding of meaning as a manner of using language expressions. It takes into account the so-called functional approach to language analysis represented by Pelc (1971Pelc ( , 1979.…”

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On Language Adequacy

Wybraniec-Skardowska

2015

Studies in Logic, Grammar and Rhetoric

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The paper concentrates on the problem of adequate reflection of fragments of reality via expressions of language and inter-subjective knowledge about these fragments, called here, in brief, language adequacy. This problem is formulated in several aspects, the most general one being: the compatibility of the language syntax with its bi-level semantics: intensional and extensional. In this paper, various aspects of language adequacy find their logical explication on the ground of the formal-logical theory of syntax T of any categorial language L generated by the so-called classical categorial grammar, and also on the ground of its extension to the bi-level, intensional and ex- tensional semantic-pragmatic theory ST for L. In T, according to the token- type distinction of Ch. S. Peirce, L is characterized first as a language of wellformed expression-tokens (wfe-tokens) - material, concrete objects - and then as a language of wfe-types - abstract objects, classes of wfe-tokens. In ST the semantic-pragmatic notions of meaning and interpretation for wfe-types of L of intensional semantics and the notion of denotation of extensional seman- tics for wfe-types and constituents of knowledge are formalized. These notions allow formulating a postulate (an axiom of categorial adequacy) from which follow all the most important conditions of the language adequacy, including the above, and a structural one connected with three principles of compositionality.

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“…Taking into account aspect 2) in the proposed conception, that is the functional approach to natural language analysis, this is marked by taking into consideration the manner of use expressions (see Pelc [1971Pelc [ , 1979). Following Pelc, we distinguish two understandings of this statement: in the first of them, the manner of use takes place only in given conditionings, in determined language-situational contexts and concerns only expressiontokens; in the other -the manner of Use (usage) characterizes the meaning of the expression.…”

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Meaning and Interpretation. I

Wybraniec-Skardowska

2007

Stud Logica

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The paper is an attempt at a logical explication of some crucial notions of current general semantics and pragmatics. A general, axiomatic, formal-logical theory of meaning and interpretation is outlined in this paper. In the theory, according to the tokentype distinction of Peirce, language is formalised on two levels: first as a language of tokenobjects (understood as material, empirical, enduring through time-and space objects) and then -as a language of type-objects (understood as abstract objects, as classes of tokens). The basic concepts of the theory, i.e. the notions: meaning, denotation and interpretation of well-formed expressions (wfes) of the language are formalised on the type-level, by utilising some semantic-pragmatic primitive notions introduced on the token-level. The paper is divided into two parts. In Part I a theory of meaning and denotation is proposed, and in Part II -its expansion to the theory of meaning and interpretation is presented. The meaning a wfe is defined as an equivalence class of the relation possessing the same manner of using types (cf. Ajdukiewicz [1934], Wittgenstein [1953]). The concept of denotation is defined by means of the relation of referring which holds between wfe-types and objects of reality described by the given language.

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Studies in Functional Logical Semiotics of Natural Language

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