Word Meaning. Gasparri, L. & Marconi, D. In The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Metaphysics Research Lab, Stanford University, Spring 2016 edition, 2016.
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Word meaning has played a somewhat marginal role in earlycontemporary philosophy of language, which was primarily concernedwith the structural features of sentences and showed lessinterest in the format of lexical representations and in the nature ofthe word-level input to compositional processes. Nowadays, it iswell-established that the way we account for word meaning is bound tohave a major impact in tipping the balance in favor or against a givenpicture of the fundamental properties of human language. This entryprovides an overview of the way issues related to lexical meaning havebeen explored in analytic philosophy and a summary of relevantresearch on the subject in neighboring scientific domains. Though themain focus will be on philosophical problems, contributions fromlinguistics, psychology, neuroscience and artificial intelligence willalso be considered, since research on word meaning is highlyinterdisciplinary.
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	edition = {Spring 2016},
	title = {Word {Meaning}},
	url = {https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/spr2016/entries/word-meaning/},
	abstract = {Word meaning has played a somewhat marginal role in earlycontemporary philosophy of language, which was primarily concernedwith the structural features of sentences and showed lessinterest in the format of lexical representations and in the nature ofthe word-level input to compositional processes. Nowadays, it iswell-established that the way we account for word meaning is bound tohave a major impact in tipping the balance in favor or against a givenpicture of the fundamental properties of human language. This entryprovides an overview of the way issues related to lexical meaning havebeen explored in analytic philosophy and a summary of relevantresearch on the subject in neighboring scientific domains. Though themain focus will be on philosophical problems, contributions fromlinguistics, psychology, neuroscience and artificial intelligence willalso be considered, since research on word meaning is highlyinterdisciplinary.},
	urldate = {2017-04-01},
	booktitle = {The {Stanford} {Encyclopedia} of {Philosophy}},
	publisher = {Metaphysics Research Lab, Stanford University},
	author = {Gasparri, Luca and Marconi, Diego},
	editor = {Zalta, Edward N.},
	year = {2016},
	keywords = {ambiguity, analytic/synthetic distinction, assertion, belief, cognition: embodied, compositionality, convention, descriptions, implicature, indexicals, logical form, meaning, theories of, meaning: normativity of, mental content: externalism about, mental content: narrow, names, natural kinds, pragmatics, presupposition, propositional attitude reports, propositions, quantifiers and quantification, reference, rigid designators, semantics: two-dimensional, speech acts, vagueness},
}

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