Metasemantics
In the philosophy of language and metaphysics, metasemantics is the study of the foundations of natural language and its corresponding semantics (the philosophical study of meaning).[1][2][3] Metasemantics searches for "the proper understanding of compositionality, the object of truth-conditional analysis, metaphysics of reference, as well as, and most importantly, the scope of semantic theory itself"[4] and asks "how it is that expressions become endowed with their semantic significance".[5] It may also be described as asking what sort of fundamental phenomenon the concept of "meaning" is.[6]
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- ^ Alexis Burgess, Brett Sherman (eds.), Metasemantics: New Essays on the Foundations of Meaning, Oxford University Press, 2014, p. 29 n. 13.
- ^ "Review of Metasemantics: New Essays on the Foundations of Meaning". Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews.
- ^ Stainton, Robert J. Philosophical Perspectives on Language. Peterborough, Ont., Broadview Press, 1996, p. 36.
- ^ Kasia M. Jaszczolt, Meaning in Linguistic Interaction: Semantics, Metasemantics, Philosophy of Language, Oxford University Press, 2016, p. viii.
- ^ Ori Simchen, Semantics, Metasemantics, Aboutness, Oxford University Press, 2017, p. xiii.
- ^ Devitt, Michael; Hanley, Richard, eds. (2006). The Blackwell guide to the philosophy of language. Blackwell philosophy guides. Malden, Mass: Blackwell Pub. pp. 71–72. ISBN 978-0-631-23141-7.
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