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Table of contents
Prefacexi
Introduction1
PART 1: Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Meaning
Traces of Meaning and Reference: Phenomenological and Hermeneutical Explorations19 Meaning Prior to the Separation of the Five Senses31 Model-Making Mind: Model of Meaning55 Perceptual Meaning and the Holoworld75 Consciousness and the Cognitive Psychology of Meaning87 Models of Interpretation109 Word Meaning, Imagery and Action129 Meaning-Constellating Processes in Experientially Defined Human Events143 Movement Metaphors: Linking Theory and Therapeutic Practice151 Relationship between Meaning and Representation: An Experimental Approach159 The Semantics of Emotion Words: A Comparison of Three Taxonomies169 Meaning and Semantic Power: Glimpses of the Philosophy of Śakti-Vāda183 Meaning, Perspective, and the Social Construction of Reality189 Philosophy of Language without Meaning, and without… Language197 PART II: Toward Broadening the Scope of Linguistic Semantics
Linguistic Relativity and Semantic Research205 The Pragmatics of Semeiosis219 Integrational Semantics: An Integrative View of Linguistic Meaning239 Sentence Type, Sentence Mood and Illocutionary Type269 Some Considerations on the Explicitness and Completeness of Semantic Descriptions283 Linguistic Meaning and Semantic Interpretation299 The Problem of Literal Meaning311 An Outline of Aspectuality in English within a Compromise Linguistic Model321 Semantic ‘Oppositions’: (Animacy)339 Semantic Similarity and Opposition: Methods of Establishment and Measurement347 Semantic Elements in Machine Translation357 Situation Semantics Analysis of Some Nominals in Bulgarian377 On Conventions and Contracts385 Tense Meaning and Pragmatics399 Ordinary Misunderstanding417 Theses for an Ethnopragmatics433 Lexical Meaning from Synchronic and Diachronic Points of View439 Are There, from a Semantic Point of View, Proper Names Based on Mass-Names?445 Pānini’s View of Meaning and its Western Counterpart455 Buddhist Tantra and Lexical Meaning465 In Praise of Wholeness479 Types of Semantic Relations between Noun Groups in Binominative Sentences487 Towards an Updated Model of the Linguistic Sign495 Meaning and Explicative Interpretation as Research Objects501 Natural Text Processing and Text Meaning521 Is Interpretation an Illusion535 Subject Index555
