Evaluative Semantics

Name: Evaluative Semantics
Brand: Routledge
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By Jean-Pierre Malrieu

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Evaluation, from connotations to complex judgements of value, is probably the most neglected dimension of meaning. Calling for a new understanding of truth and value, this book is a comprehensive study of evaluation in natural language, at lexical, syntactic and discursive levels. Jean Pierre Malrieu explores the cognitive foundations of evaluation and uses connectionist networks to model evaluative processes. He takes into account the social dimension of evaluation, showing that ideological contexts account for evaluative variability. A discussion of compositionality and opacity leads to the argument that a semantics of evaluation has some key advantages over truth-conditional semantics and as an example Malrieu applies his evaluative semantics to a complex Shakespeare text. His connectionist model yields a mathematical estimation of the consistency of text with ideology, and is particularly useful in the identification of subtle rhetorical devices such as irony.

Product details

Edition:

illustrated

Number of Pages:

330

Release Date:

1999-09-01

Publication Date:

1999-07-29

Publisher:

Routledge

Languages:

Original: English

ISBN10:

0415197619

ISBN13:

9780415197618

GPSR Manufacturer Reference:

[email protected]

Weight:

688 g

Height:

157 cm

Width:

235 cm

Thickness:

24 cm

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