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Linguistic understanding and semantic theory ...
Bowman, Brian. - : University of Southern California Digital Library (USC.DL), 2012
Abstract: This book defends a theory of linguistic understanding, or what is alternatively called linguistic competence or semantic competence; it also defends a view about how linguistic understanding is related to semantic theory. The central target for a theory of understanding is to answer the question, “What is it to understand and competently use a language?” It is natural to think that understanding a language is a matter of knowing what various expressions in the language mean. Since semantic theory is a theory of what various expressions in a language mean, it is a natural and widely held view that linguistic understanding is simply a matter of knowing something like a semantic theory. According to this view, we essentially arrive at the best theory of understanding by pointing to the best semantic theory and simply saying that to understand and be competent with a language is to know that. Thus, the theory of understanding has been thought by many to be a trivial offspring of semantic theory, and the theory ...
Keyword: direct reference; FOS Philosophy, ethics and religion; knowledge of meaning; knowledge of reference; linguistic competence; linguistic understanding; Philosophy; reference; semantic competence; semantic externalism; semantic theory
URL: https://dx.doi.org/10.25549/usctheses-c3-63752
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