Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Preface xi
4. Introduction 1
5. PART 1: Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Meaning
6. Traces of Meaning and Reference 19
7. Meaning Prior to the Separation of the Five Senses 31
8. Model-Making Mind 55
9. Perceptual Meaning and the Holoworld 75
10. Consciousness and the Cognitive Psychology of Meaning 87
11. The Body of Discourse 101
12. Models of Interpretation 109
13. Word Meaning, Imagery and Action 129
14. Meaning-Constellating Processes in Experientially Defined Human Events 143
15. Movement Metaphors 151
16. Relationship between Meaning and Representation 159
17. The Semantics of Emotion Words 169
18. Meaning and Semantic Power 183
19. Meaning, Perspective, and the Social Construction of Reality 189
20. Philosophy of Language without Meaning, and without… Language 197
21. PART II: Toward Broadening the Scope of Linguistic Semantics
22. Linguistic Relativity and Semantic Research 205
23. The Pragmatics of Semeiosis 219
24. Integrational Semantics 239
25. Sentence Type, Sentence Mood and Illocutionary Type 269
26. Some Considerations on the Explicitness and Completeness of Semantic Descriptions 283
27. Linguistic Meaning and Semantic Interpretation 299
28. The Problem of Literal Meaning 311
29. An Outline of Aspectuality in English within a Compromise Linguistic Model 321
30. Semantic ‘Oppositions’ 339
31. Semantic Similarity and Opposition 347
32. Semantic Elements in Machine Translation 357
33. Situation Semantics Analysis of Some Nominals in Bulgarian 377
34. On Conventions and Contracts 385
35. Tense Meaning and Pragmatics 399
36. Ordinary Misunderstanding 417
37. Theses for an Ethnopragmatics 433
38. Lexical Meaning from Synchronic and Diachronic Points of View 439
39. Are There, from a Semantic Point of View, Proper Names Based on Mass-Names? 445
40. Pānini’s View of Meaning and its Western Counterpart 455
41. Buddhist Tantra and Lexical Meaning 465
42. In Praise of Wholeness 479
43. Types of Semantic Relations between Noun Groups in Binominative Sentences 487
44. Towards an Updated Model of the Linguistic Sign 495
45. Meaning and Explicative Interpretation as Research Objects 501
46. Natural Text Processing and Text Meaning 521
47. Is Interpretation an Illusion 535
48. Subject Index 555