FORMAL SEMANTICS AND PRAGMATICS: AN OVERVIEW OF SELECTED DEFINITIONS

• Authors: Stalmaszczyk P
• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

EN

The paper discusses the development of formal semantics and pragmatics and traces various attempts at defining and delimiting these disciplines. It shows how the original definition, provided by Charles Morris (in 1938), has undergone several important changes and modifications. The paper discusses the contribution of Rudolf Carnap, Richard Montague and Polish logicians (Alfred Tarski, Kazimierz Ajdukiewicz, Tadeusz Kotarbinski) towards the understanding of formal semantics and the methodological issues connected with formal approaches to natural language. The paper concludes with a brief discussion of the problem of context in Montague Grammar and in more recent dynamic approaches to semantics and pragmatics, and offers a tentative classification of approaches to pragmatics.

Keywords

EN

CONTEXT; FORMAL SEMANTICS; PRAGMATICS

Discipline

• PHILOLOGY_&_LINGUISTICS: PHILOLOGY & LINGUISTICS

• Publisher: Polskie Towarzystwo Językoznawcze; UNIVERSITAS Towarzystwo Autorów i Wydawców Prac Naukowych; Wydawnictwo LEXIS
• Journal: Biuletyn Polskiego Towarzystwa Językoznawczego
• Year: 2008
• Volume: 64
• Pages: 9-24
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Stalmaszczyk P

• P. Stalmaszczyk, Uniwersytet Lódzki, Wydzial Filologiczny, Instytut Anglistyki, ul. Kosciuszki 65, 90-514 Lódz, Poland

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

09PLAAAA05921