LINGUIST List 13.3271

Wed Dec 11 2002

Books: Pragmatics: Fodor & Lepore (eds.)

Editor for this issue: Marisa Ferrara <marisalinguistlist.org>

Directory

1. bartonm, The Compositionality Papers: Fodor & Lepore (eds.)

			
Title: The Compositionality Papers
			
Publication Year: 2002
Publisher: Oxford University Press 
 http://www.oup-usa.org/		 
			
Book URL: http://www.oup-usa.org/isbn/0199252157.html
 
Editor: Jerry A. Fodor, Rutgers University 
Editor: Ernie Lepore, Rutgers University 

Hardback: ISBN: 0199252157, Pages: 220 pp, Price: $ 55.00
Paperback: ISBN: 0199252165, Pages: 220 pp, Price: $ 19.95
			
Abstract:

Ernie Lepore and Jerry Fodor have published a series of original and
controversial essays on issues relating to compositionality in
language and mind; they have now revised them all for publication
together in this volume. Compositionality is the following aspect of a
system of representation: the complex symbols in the system inherit
their syntactic and semantic properties from the primitive symbols of
the system. Fodor and Lepore argue that compositionality determines
what view we must take of the nature of concepts. Anyone trying to
figure out how language and mind work must take account of this
challenging work by two leading figures in the field.

Lingfield(s): Pragmatics

Written In: English (Language Code: ENG)