Meaning and Understanding

Preface List of Contributors Introduction I. How to Understand Understanding On Understanding the Difficulty in Understanding Understanding “I know what you mean, but if only I understood you ...” On the Semantic Structure of ‘Meaning’ and ‘Understanding’ II. Explaining and Understanding ‘Meaning and Understanding’ Intentions, Conventions, and Reference to Things: Dimensions of Understanding Meaning in Hermeneutics and in Analytic Philosophy of Language Herméneutique et linguistique Understanding and Rationality III. Knowledge, Thought, Truth and Interpretation Universals of Knowledge – Constraints on Understanding? Principles of Conversation, Speech Acts, and Radical Interpretation Truth and the Theory of Content IV. Beyond Frege Anti-realism and the Epistemology of Understanding Perspectival Understanding Understanding Demonstratives Sens frégéen et compréhension de la langue V. Semantic Theory and Pragmatic Functioning of Understanding Strategies of Understanding Les conditions dialogiques de la compréhension ou le paradoxe de Narcisse VI. Formal and Pragmatic Understanding of Formalisms Qu’est-ce que comprendre la formule: «2+2=4»? The Pragmatic Understanding of Language and the Argumentative Function of Logic Understanding and the Limits of Formal Thinking Bibliography Author Index

From 1963 to 2011 Pacific Linguistics, located at the Australian National University, published over six hundred books concerned with the languages of the Pacific, Australia, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Southeast, South and East Asia. The Mouton Pacific Linguistics series represents a continuation of this publishing venture under the same Editorial Board.

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The authors and editors of Pacific Linguistics publications are drawn from a wide range of institutions around the world, and its publications are refereed by international scholars with relevant expertise.

Pacific Linguistics has built a reputation as the most authoritative publisher of works on the languages of the Pacific and neighbouring areas, read by scholars with an interest in the region as well as by linguists with interests in language typology, sociolinguistics, language contact and the reconstruction of linguistic change and culture history. Pacific Linguistics is proud to act as a vehicle for the dissemination of knowledge about the languages of the Pacific and the Pacific Rim, many of which are little known, and to bring them to the attention of scholars around the world, as well as providing local communities with published language material, at a time when many minority languages are under threat.

Edited By Herman Parret And Jacques Bouveresse. Includes Index. Bibliography: P. [423]-437.