What is this thing called Philosophy of Language?

Kemp, Gary

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“…Specifically, recent research has suggested that one of the fundamental features of language-semantic compositionality-might be extant in some wild animal communication systems. Semantic compositionality refers to the communicational capacity to combine structures and their meanings into sequences with "derived" meanings, with the sequence's meaning being a function of the meanings of its parts and the rule(s) 1 applied to arrange the parts 2 (Hackl 2013;Hurford 2012;Kemp 2013;Löbner 2013;Saeed 2016). For example, a speaker of English uttering John broke the glass.…”

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Overlooked evidence for semantic compositionality and signal reduction in wild chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes)

Gabrić

2021

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Recent discoveries of semantic compositionality in Japanese tits have enlivened the discussions on the presence of this phenomenon in wild animal communication. Data on semantic compositionality in wild apes are lacking, even though language experiments with captive apes have demonstrated they are capable of semantic compositionality. In this paper, I revisit the study by Boesch (Hum. Evol. 6:81–89, 1991) who investigated drumming sequences by an alpha male in a chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes) community in the Taï National Park, Côte d’Ivoire. A reanalysis of the data reveals that the alpha male produced semantically compositional combined messages of travel direction change and resting period initiation. Unlike the Japanese tits, the elements of the compositional expression were not simply juxtaposed but displayed structural reduction, while one of the two elements in the expression coded the meanings of both elements. These processes show relative resemblance to blending and fusion in human languages. Also unlike the tits, the elements of the compositional expression did not have a fixed order, although there was a fixed distribution of drumming events across the trees used for drumming. Because the elements of the expression appear to carry verb-like meanings, the compositional expression also resembles simple verb-verb constructions and short paratactic combinations of two clauses found across languages. In conclusion, the reanalysis suggests that semantic compositionality and phenomena resembling paratactic combinations of two clauses might have been present in the communication of the last common ancestor of chimpanzees and humans, not necessarily in the vocal modality.

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Overlooked evidence for semantic compositionality and signal reduction in wild chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes)

Gabrić

2021

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“…The linguistic turn, which originated in the late seventeenth century and dominated Western philosophy throughout the twentieth century (Han, Pang, and Wang 2007), emphasizes the core, constitutive, and constructive role of language in grasping the world (Losonsky 2006). Accordingly, ontological problems of the world are transformed into semantic problems (Kemp 2013). Theorizing tourism from the linguistic turn entails identifying intricate meanings of “tourism” as solutions to the ontological problem of tourism.…”

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Tourism in a Semantic Mirror: Retheorizing Tourism from the Linguistic Turn

Lai

2021

Journal of Travel Research

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Although scholars have sought to theorize tourism from important philosophical turns (e.g., epistemological/antirational/postmodern/practice), one influential turn (viz. linguistic) has not received much attention. This study attempts to fill this gap by retheorizing tourism from the linguistic turn. We introduced major theories of meaning (a core part of the linguistic turn) from the philosophy literature, on the basis of which we constructed a new semantic space of “tourism” where multiple semantic dimensions (defined by particular types of meaning theories) coexist and possess different semantic veins (determined by a subtheory of meaning) consisting of numerous semantic dots (i.e., actual understandings of tourism). This prescriptive space captures the image of tourism in a semantic mirror, encompassing tourism ontologies in a semantic/linguistic realm. This space also offers solutions to four problems in prior tourism theorization. By innovatively linking tourism and philosophy of language, this study has expanded the options in addressing the question “What is tourism?”

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“…So heißt es in einer aktuellen englischsprachigen Einführung in die Sprachphilosophie: "The analysis of language -especially the theory of meaning as informed by logic -enables us to understand what clarity is." (Kemp 2018: xvii) Spätestens seit den 1990er Jahren tritt Sprache verstärkt in ihrer konstitutiven Verschränkung mit dem Ethischen und Politischen in den Mittelpunkt der philosophischen Reflexion, wobei die Anstöße hierzu nicht aus der analytisch geprägten Sprachphilosophie, sondern vielmehr aus der Sozialphilosophie, der Politischen Philosophie sowie der feministischen Philosophie und Gendertheorie kommen. Fragen zur Normativität von Sprache, zur sprachlichen Verfasstheit von Anerkennungsbeziehungen, zum Verhältnis von Sprache und Gewalt sowie von körperlicher und sprachlicher Verletzbarkeit werden ebenso thematisch wie Überlegungen zur diskursiven Konstitution politischer Subjektivität oder zur Sprachlichkeit ethischer und politischer Ansprüche.…”

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What is this thing called Philosophy of Language?

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Overlooked evidence for semantic compositionality and signal reduction in wild chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes)

Overlooked evidence for semantic compositionality and signal reduction in wild chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes)

Tourism in a Semantic Mirror: Retheorizing Tourism from the Linguistic Turn

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