The Semantics of Media (Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy, Band 64) - Hardcover

Ross, J.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0792343891 ISBN 13: 9780792343899

Verlag: Springer, 1997

Inhaltsangabe

Media are objects with content and character that we describe using in- phrases: in the story, in the picture, in the movie, in thedream ... Like the propositional attitudes, these objects present a variety of hard problems for semantic and philosophical analysis. TheSemantics 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.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Springer
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1997
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0792343891
• ISBN 13: 9780792343899
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 148
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