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Sentence meaning: in contrast to the case of word meaning, the composition of the parts of the sentence must be taken into account for the sentence meaning. The so-called use theory of meaning does not apply to whole sentences. See also compositionality, use, use theory, truth values, context/context dependency._____________Annotation: The above characterizations of concepts are neither definitions nor exhausting presentations of problems related to them. Instead, they are intended to give a short introduction to the contributions below. – Lexicon of Arguments. | |||
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Arnim von Stechow on Sentence Meaning - Dictionary of Arguments
30 ~ VsFrege: a semantics that applies only truth values for sentence meanings cannot exporess this verb meaning. >attitude, >propositional attitudes. 110 ff Sentence meaning/Stechow: in connection with (existence-) presupposition: now partial function of situations to truth values. >Truth values, >Situations, >Presuppositions. So the sentence meaning is no longer sets of possible worlds. ((s) no longer defined if the domain of objects does not exist). >Possible worlds. Presupposition: limiting the scope (domain restriction). Def plug: "says", "believes": blocks the forwarding of presuppositions to the top - no limitation. Cf. >That-clauses, >Opacity. Filter: "if", "and": block presuppositions. Hole: specific words let presuppositions in the embedding sentence by._____________Explanation of symbols: Roman numerals indicate the source, arabic numerals indicate the page number. The corresponding books are indicated on the right hand side. ((s)…): Comment by the sender of the contribution. Translations: Dictionary of Arguments The note [Concept/Author], [Author1]Vs[Author2] or [Author]Vs[term] resp. "problem:"/"solution:", "old:"/"new:" and "thesis:" is an addition from the Dictionary of Arguments. If a German edition is specified, the page numbers refer to this edition. |
A. von Stechow I Arnim von Stechow Schritte zur Satzsemantik www.sfs.uniï·"tuebingen.de/~astechow/Aufsaetze/Schritte.pdf (26.06.2006) |