From Perception to Communication: A Theory of Types for Action and Meaning

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Robin Cooper (Professor Emeritus and Senior Researcher, Professor Emeritus and Senior Researcher, University of Gothenburg)

From Perception to Communication

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A Theory of Types for Action and Meaning

Robin Cooper (Professor Emeritus and Senior Researcher, Professor Emeritus and Senior Researcher, University of Gothenburg)

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Oxford University Press
15 June 2023

Philosophy of language; Semantics; Cognition & cognitive psychology

Series: Oxford Studies in Semantics and Pragmatics

This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations. This book characterizes a notion of type that covers both linguistic and non-linguistic action, and lays the foundations for a theory of action based on a Theory of Types with Records (TTR). Robin Cooper argues that a theory of language based on action allows the adoption of a perspective on linguistic content that is centred on interaction in dialogue; this approach is crucially different to the traditional view of natural languages as essentially similar to formal languages such as logics developed by philosophers or mathematicians. At the same time, he claims that the substantial technical advantages made by the formal language view of semantics can be incorporated into the action-based view, and that this can lead to important improvements in both intuitive understanding and empirical coverage. This enterprise uses types rather than possible worlds as commonly employed in studies of the semantics of natural language. Types are more tractable than possible worlds and offer greater potential for understanding the implementation of semantics both on machines and in biological brains.

By: Robin Cooper (Professor Emeritus and Senior Researcher Professor Emeritus and Senior Researcher University of Gothenburg)
Imprint: Oxford University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Volume: 16
Dimensions: Height: 252mm, Width: 180mm, Spine: 30mm
Weight: 982g
ISBN: 9780192871312
ISBN 10: 0192871315
Series: Oxford Studies in Semantics and Pragmatics
Pages: 454
Publication Date: 15 June 2023
Audience: College/higher education , Primary
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

General preface Acknowledgements How to read this book Introduction Part I: From perception and action to grammar 1: From perception to intensionality 2: From event perception and action to information states and information exchange 3: Grammar in a theory of action Part II: Towards a dialogical view of semantics 4: Reference and mental states 5: Frames and descriptions 6: Modality and intensionality without possible worlds 7: Witness-based quantification 8: Type-based underspecification Conclusion Appendix: TTR References Symbols and notations used Named types Name index Subject index

Robin Cooper is Professor Emeritus and Senior Researcher at the University of Gothenburg, where he was previously Professor of Computational Linguistics. He is currently conducting research within the Centre for Linguistic Theory and Studies in Probability (CLASP) at Gothenburg. He is a Fellow of the British Academy and the Royal Society of Arts and Sciences in Gothenburg, and a member of the Academia Europaea.