Words and Meaning in Metasemantics

In Words and Meaning in Metasemantics, Juan José Colomina-Almiñana puts forward a new way of understanding the linguistic and philosophical foundations of the study of language: the Interactive Theory. This theory states that the meaning of our sentences is much more than the truth values their components clauses carry. Since language is a human artifact, Words and Meaning in Metasemantics also explains the role that our reasons, dispositions, inferences, acts, and awareness have in the content-fixing of the sentences speakers employ to refer to the world in which they belong.

Juan J. Colomina-Almiñana is assistant professor in the Department of World Languages, Literatures, and Cultures and the Interdepartmental Program in Linguistics at Louisiana State University.

Chapter 1: The Traditional View
Chapter 2: The Psychological Relevance of Propositional Content
Chapter 3: The Conventionality of Propositional Content
Chapter 4: The Interactive Theory
Chapter 5. Expanding the Interactive Theory
Chapter 6: Application 1: Tensed Sentences
Chapter 7: Application 2: Disagreements
Chapter 8: Application 3: Presupposition Projection