TY - BOOK ID - 66226 TI - The semantics of media PY - 1997 VL - 64 SN - 0792343891 9401063834 9401156506 9780792343899 PB - Dordrecht Boston ; London Kluwer Academic Publishers DB - UniCat KW - Philosophy of language KW - Mass communications KW - Analyse de contenu (Communication) KW - Analyse du discours médiatique KW - Content analysis (Communication) KW - Contenu [Analyse du ] (Communication) KW - Inhoud--Analyse (Communicatie) KW - Inhoudsanalyse (Communicatie) KW - Langage et mass média KW - Langage et médias KW - Language and mass media KW - Mass media and language KW - Mass média -- Langage KW - Mass média et langage KW - Massamedia en taal KW - Médias -- Langage KW - Médias et langage KW - Semantics KW - Semantics (Philosophy) KW - Semantiek KW - Semantiek (Filosofie) KW - Sémantique KW - Sémantique (Philosophie) KW - Sémasiologie KW - Taal en massamedia KW - Analysis of content (Communication) KW - Communication KW - Subject analysis KW - Intension (Philosophy) KW - Logical semantics KW - Semantics (Logic) KW - Semeiotics KW - Significs KW - Syntactics KW - Unified science KW - Language and languages KW - Logic, Symbolic and mathematical KW - Logical positivism KW - Meaning (Psychology) KW - Philosophy, Modern KW - Semiotics KW - Signs and symbols KW - Symbolism KW - Analysis (Philosophy) KW - Definition (Philosophy) KW - Formal semantics KW - Semasiology KW - Semiology (Semantics) KW - Comparative linguistics KW - Information theory KW - Lexicology KW - Content analysis KW - Methodology KW - Mass media and language. KW - Semantics. KW - Content analysis (Communication). KW - Semantics (Philosophy). KW - Médias et langage KW - Sémantique KW - Sémantique (Philosophie) KW - Linguistics. KW - Social sciences. KW - Linguistics, general. KW - Theoretical Linguistics. KW - Social Sciences, general. KW - Behavioral sciences KW - Human sciences KW - Sciences, Social KW - Social science KW - Social studies KW - Civilization KW - Linguistic science KW - Science of language UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:66226 AB - Media are objects with content and character that we describe using in- phrases: in the story, in the picture, in the movie, in the dream... Like the propositional attitudes, these objects present a variety of hard problems for semantic and philosophical analysis. The Semantics of Media is an organized exploration of fundamental questions in the semantics of media. The first three chapters set out a straightforward model within the possible-worlds framework, and consider how it might account for a range of notions applying to media generally: implicit vs. explicit content, propositional vs. individual content, causal vs. intentional content and the idea of a single World of the Medium. The final three chapters examine ways of elaborating the model to cover a range of phenomena keyed to the functionality of particular forms of media. Chapter Four is a discussion of fiction and our apparent reference to fictional characters. Chapter Five deals with the phenomenon of viewpoint in pictorial media. Chapter Six is a study of interactions between users and characters of media centering on the puzzling case of seeing in films. The Semantics of Media will be of interest to specialists in the fields of linguistics, philosophy and communications. ER -