Underdetermination and the Principles of Semantic Theory

Powell, George

doi:10.1111/j.0066-7372.2003.00056.x

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“…Semantik adalah ilmu yang mempelajari mengenai makna kata dan kalimat. Teori semantik menyatakan bahwa makna secara fungsional disampaikan melalui ekspresi atau fenomena bahasa (Powell, 2002). Selain itu, pembentukan makna dalam suatu bahasa dapat dijelaskan dengan menghubungkan tiga hal, yaitu symbol, reference, dan referent (Samingin & Asmara, 2016, p.30).…”

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Semiotic Studies of Padlock Meaning on Liliba Bridge in Kupang

Erfiani

Neno

2018

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This study aimed at investigating the meaning of Padlocks hung on the fence of Liliba Bridge in Kupang, East Nusa Tenggara Province. The meaning of the padlocks was analyzed from semiotic’s approach especially Roland Barthes which meanings were seen from denotation, connotation, and myth. This study used qualitative research method. Based on the data analysis, it was concluded that the hanging padlocks had 3 main meanings, (1) the denotation meaning was the couple or teenagers wrote both their names on a padlock, then they locked and hung it on Liliba Bridge; (2) the connotation meaning was the couple or teenagers had analogy their love in a padlock which had their names in order to make their romantic love lasts forever as same as the padlock; and (3) the myth meaning was the teenagers believed and convinced that their love will last forever if they locked the padlocks on the Liliba bridge.

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Semiotic Studies of Padlock Meaning on Liliba Bridge in Kupang

Erfiani

Neno

2018

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“…From the point of view of linguistic theory, the free enrichment approach would have a clear advantage: leaving more responsibility to pragmatics makes for a simpler, more elegant syntax and semantics, while the pragmatic mechanisms and principles involved in free enrichment are just those that are independently needed for other pragmatic tasks such as implicature calculation. Furthermore, it has been argued that compositionality of standing linguistic meaning, rather than of truth-conditional content, satisfactorily explains how our finite minds are capable of producing and interpreting infinitely many novel sentences, and why lexical items make systematic contributions to the meanings of the various sentences in which they appear (see, for example, Powell 2002;Carston 2002, pp. 70-4).…”

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Semantic Compositionality and Truth-Conditional Content

Hall¹

2009

Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society (Hardback)

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It is widely held that hearers grasp an utterance's truth conditions by assigning contents to the linguistic expressions used, and combining these contents according to semantic composition rules. To preserve compositionality of truth‐conditional content while accounting for context‐sensitivity that is not traceable to overt linguistic form, semanticists posit covert linguistic structure. The strongest justification for this approach is the allegedly unconstrained nature of the alternative, whereby a process of ‘free pragmatic enrichment’ supplies constituents of content that are not traceable to (overt or covert) encoded meaning. This paper argues that free enrichment is tightly constrained by purely pragmatic factors, thus undermining the motivation for semantic compositionality.

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“…forthcoming) (but seeTHE DISTINCTION BETWEEN SEMANTICS AND PRAGMATICS in this volume for a different view). It follows from this position that the long-standing Principles of Semantic Compositionality and Semantic Innocence hold, not at the level of the truthconditional content of an utterance, but at the more schematic (often nonpropositional) level of linguistic expression-type meaning (seePowell 2002).…”

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Relevance Theory—New Directions and Developments

Carston

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2009

The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Language

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Much work in relevance theory relies on the kinds of method and data familiar to linguistic philosophers: essentially introspection and native speaker intuitions on properties such as truth conditions, truth values, what is said, etc. Recently, however, relevance theorists have been at the forefront of a newly-emerging research field, experimental pragmatics, which aims to apply the empirical techniques of psycholinguistics to questions about utterance interpretation. Over the last few years, this new research methodology has thrown up interesting and sometimes surprising insights into the psychological processes underlying human communication and comprehension, some of which are discussed in this article.

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Underdetermination and the Principles of Semantic Theory

Cited by 7 publications

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Semiotic Studies of Padlock Meaning on Liliba Bridge in Kupang

Semiotic Studies of Padlock Meaning on Liliba Bridge in Kupang

Semantic Compositionality and Truth-Conditional Content

Relevance Theory—New Directions and Developments

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