Semantics I acknowledgements
CHAPTER IVTHE LOGIC OF LANGUAGE
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| CHAPTER IV THE LOGIC OF LANGUAGE Based on the title above, we are now concerning with the logic of language which is proposed by the linguists. Despite the fact that some cases of the logicians are also very general to those of linguist, butt seems that the logic which is found in language is wider, by means that a linguist, besides finding the rules of characterizing the logic-semantic representation of sentences, he should also (as expressed by Leech) take account of: a. The actual facts of language usage. Whatever propositions native speakers of language fine meaningful, meaningless synonymous, inconsistent, etc, are part of the data the linguist has to explained. He must not stray into any idealized or artificially normalized system of language. b. The place of logic semantic in the overall account of language. This mean that he must provide rules or other formalisms which show the relation between semantic and syntax on the one hand, and semantics and pragmatics on the other . Logic, which is an autonomous system of logician, is not so for the linguist. c. The psychological plausibility of semantic descriptions, For the linguist, natural logic means the actual mental apparatus with which people think and express their thought rationally. Certain convention of logic calculi e. g. that left-to right on the page is significant are not particularly plausible from the psychological point of view There is no SEMANTICS Page suppose that the human mind apprehends logical relations in a linear way (Leech, 1981: So, the logic of language which deals with synonymy, inconsistency, semantic anomaly meaningless, meaningfulness, ambiguity, entailment, tautology, etc, or as Katz said they areas a model of semantic theory, are not only the task of linguists to construct, but it is even wider than what the logicians concern. Leech added the two items above (a and b. item a is applied or used in this book, for the essence of syntax and pragmatics are close to semantics. Like ambiguity as the property of sentence (syntax, and the pragmatic use of the definiteness the, of which both are logical. Whereas as, item bid not much concerned in this book, because this domain (psychological purpose) is closely linked to logic as the branch of philosophy. Download 332.89 Kb. Share with your friends:
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