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An introductory linguistics textbook that takes a novel approach: studying linguistic semantics as an exercise in scientific theory construction.

This introductory linguistics text takes a novel approach, one that offers educational value to both linguistics majors and nonmajors. Aiming to help students not only grasp the fundamentals of the subject but also engage with broad intellectual issues and develop general intellectual skills, Semantics as Science studies linguistic semantics as an exercise in scientific theory construction. Semantics offers an excellent medium through which to acquaint students with the notion of a formal, axiomatic system—that is, a system that derives results from a precisely articulated set of assumptions according to a precisely articulated set of rules.
 
The book develops semantic theory through the device of axiomatic T-theories, first proposed by Alfred Tarski more than eighty years ago, introducing technic

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    A Paperback / softback by Richard K. Larson, Kimiko Ryokai

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      Publisher: MIT Press Ltd
      Publication Date: 22/11/2022
      ISBN13: 9780262539951, 978-0262539951
      ISBN10: 0262539950
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      Book Synopsis
      An introductory linguistics textbook that takes a novel approach: studying linguistic semantics as an exercise in scientific theory construction.

      This introductory linguistics text takes a novel approach, one that offers educational value to both linguistics majors and nonmajors. Aiming to help students not only grasp the fundamentals of the subject but also engage with broad intellectual issues and develop general intellectual skills, Semantics as Science studies linguistic semantics as an exercise in scientific theory construction. Semantics offers an excellent medium through which to acquaint students with the notion of a formal, axiomatic system—that is, a system that derives results from a precisely articulated set of assumptions according to a precisely articulated set of rules.
       
      The book develops semantic theory through the device of axiomatic T-theories, first proposed by Alfred Tarski more than eighty years ago, introducing technic

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