A Theory of Linguistic Signs
Rudi Keller
Translated by Kimberley Duenwald
Table of Contents
Introduction: Signs in Everyday Life
Part I: Two Notions of Signs
1. Plato's Instrumental Notion of Signs
2. Aristotle's Representational Notion of Signs
3. Frege's Representational Notion of Signs
Part II: Semantics and Cognition
5. Conceptual Realism versus Conceptual Relativism
6. Types of Concepts versus Types of Rules
7. Expression and Meaning
Part II: Sign Emergence
8. Basic Techniques of Interpretation
9. Inferential Procedures
10. Arbitrariness versus Motivatedness
Part IV: Sign Metamorphosis
11. Iconification and Symbolification
12. Metaphorization, Metonymization and Lexicalization
13. Literal and Metaphorical Sense
14. Rationality and Implicatures
Part V: The Diachronic Dimension
15. Costs and Benefits of the Metaphoric Technique
16. The Metaphoric Use of Modal Verbs
17. The Epistemic Weil
Summary
Introduction: Signs in Everyday Life
Part I: Two Notions of Signs
1. Plato's Instrumental Notion of Signs
2. Aristotle's Representational Notion of Signs
3. Frege's Representational Notion of Signs
Part II: Semantics and Cognition
5. Conceptual Realism versus Conceptual Relativism
6. Types of Concepts versus Types of Rules
7. Expression and Meaning
Part III: Sign Emergence
8. Basic Techniques of Interpretation
9. Inferential Procedures
10. Arbitrariness versus Motivatedness
Part IV: Sign Metamorphosis
11. Iconification and Symbolification
12. Metaphorization, Metonymization and Lexicalization
13. Literal and Metaphorical Sense
14. Rationality and Implicatures
Part V: The Diachronic Dimension
15. Costs and Benefits of the Metaphoric Technique
16. The Metaphoric Use of Modal Verbs
17. The Epistemic Weil
Summary