The Semantics of Media

By:

J. Ross

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Series:

Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy

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

Release date NZ

January 31st, 1997

Author

J. Ross

Audiences

Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Professional & Vocational
Undergraduate

Illustrations

VII, 141 p.

Pages

141

Series

Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy

Dimensions

155x235x11

ISBN-13

9780792343899

Product ID

2051464

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