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Is semantics really so indeterminate that, as W. V. Quine (1960) once argued in Word and Object, in the example about a previously undocumented, primitive tribe, it is impossible in principle to be absolutely certain of the meaning or reference that a speaker of the primitive tribe s language attaches to an utterance ? (WK 2011) This thought-provoking stand in semantics can be contrasted with an opposing view like literal translation (or metaphrase, in contrast with paraphrase ), in that, as John Dryden put it, when [words] appear . . . literally graceful, it were an injury to the author that they should be changed. (WK 2011a; C. Kasparek 1983) Contrary to these opposing ideas (and other views as will be discussed in the book), semantics, in relation to internality and externality, is neither possible or impossible, nor desirable or undesirable to the extent that the respective ideologues on different sides would like us to believe. Surely, the challenge to these opposing ideas in semantics does not mean that semantics is useless, or that those fields of study related to semantics like philosophy of language, linguistics, psychology, communication studies, hermeneutics, logic, comp

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Author

Peter Baofu

Publisher

Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Published

2012

Language

EN

ISBN

9781443838108

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Language Learning, Literary Fiction, Philosophy