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Logic --- Semantics (Philosophy) --- Logic. --- Semantics (Philosophy). --- Logique --- Sémantique

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Langage --- Philosophie --- Semantics (Philosophy) --- Speech acts (Linguistics)

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In recent decades, many theories of formal semantics of natural language have undergone what can be called a dynamic turn: they have moved from treating language as a static system to considering it 'in action' and to taking meanings as crucially involving 'context-change potentials'. The theories, however, usually concentrate much more on the hows of the turn than on its whys; and as a result, the conceptual foundations of dynamic semantics are much less elaborated than its technical side. This book, based on a conference held in Prague in September 2001, is a contribution to filling this gap: it consists of papers addressing, from various sides, the foundational questions of the dynamic theories of meaning. It includes contributions of writers who are commonly held as authorities concerning the turn, who, however, here concentrate more on the why's than on the how's of dynamic semantics. Hence the book should be of interest both for those who want to know what the turn is about, and for those who are not satisfied with knowing the technical side of dynamic semantics and want to know its point.

Discourse analysis --- Grammar, Comparative and general --- Semantics (Philosophy) --- Syntax

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Lexicology. Semantics --- Philosophy of language --- Betekenis (Filosofie) --- Meaning (Philosophy) --- Signification (Philosophie) --- Language and languages --- Philosophy --- Semantics (Philosophy)

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How, in this Christian age of belief, can we draw sense from the ritual acts of Christians assembled in worship? Convinced that people shape their meanings from the meanings available to them, Graham Hughes inquires into liturgical constructions of meaning within the larger cultural context of late twentieth-century meaning theory. Major theories of meaning are examined in terms of their contribution or hindrance to this meaning making: analytic philosophy, phenomenology, structuralism and deconstruction. Drawing particularly upon the work of Charles Peirce, Hughes turns to semiotic theory to analyse the construction, transmission and apprehension of meaning within an actual worship service. Finally the book analyses the ways in which various worshipping styles of western Christianity undertake this meaning making. Taking account of late modern values and precepts, this ground-breaking book will appeal to teachers and students of theology, to clergy, and to thoughtful lay Christians.

Liturgics. --- Meaning (Philosophy) --- Liturgiology --- Liturgy --- Public worship --- Liturgies --- Religious aspects --- Christianity. --- Liturgics --- 264 --- Philosophy --- Semantics (Philosophy) --- Religious aspects&delete& --- Christianity --- Arts and Humanities --- Religion