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Understanding and Literal Meaning
The debate on literal meaning in theories of natural language processing has focused on two main issues: (1) Are there conditions by which the literal meaning of a sentence can be appropriately identified?; and (2) Is there some evaluation of literal meaning during the interpretation of natural language utterances? My article, “Literal meaning and psychological theory,” (Gibbs, 1984) attempted ...
متن کاملLiteral Meaning and re
Based on psychological studies which show that metaphors and other nonliteral constructions are comprehended in the same amount of time as comparable literal constructions, some researchers have concluded that literal meaning is not computed during metaphor comprehension. In this paper, we suggest that the empirical evidence does not rule out the possibility that literal meaning is constructed....
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In my recent defense of literal’meaning (Dascal, 1987), my main concern was to show that such a theoretical construct is “psychologically real”. At least in one sense, Gibbs (1989, p. 249) grants this point. For he acknowledges that the meanings I call “literal” are among the “variety of products that result from language understanding,” and adds: “Nobody disputes this as an aspect of psycholog...
متن کاملDefending Literal Meaning
The notion of literal meaning was once so unproblematic that it would easily fit Arnauld’s description: it was one of those notions that are “so clear that they cannot be explained through others, because there are none which are clearer and simpler than them.” But in our century, its fate has not been different from that of so many other notions previously presumed to be “fundamental ,” and it...
متن کاملJ. L. Austin and Literal Meaning
Alice Crary has recently developed a radical reading of J. L. Austin’s philosophy of language. The central contention of Crary’s reading is that Austin gives convincing reasons to reject the idea that sentences have context-invariant literal meaning. While I am in sympathy with Crary about the continuing importance of Austin’s work, and I think Crary’s reading is deep and interesting, I do not ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Cognitive Science
سال: 1989
ISSN: 0364-0213
DOI: 10.1207/s15516709cog1302_5