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Study of the foundations of natural language semantics
In the
philosophy of language and
metaphysics, metasemantics is the study of the foundations of
natural language
semantics (the
philosophical study of
meaning).
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[3] Metasemantics searches for "the proper understanding of
compositionality, the object of
truth-conditional analysis,
metaphysics of reference, as well as, and most importantly, the scope of semantic theory itself"
[4] and asks "how it is that
expressions become endowed with their
semantic significance".
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See also
References
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^ Alexis Burgess, Brett Sherman (eds.), Metasemantics: New Essays on the Foundations of Meaning, Oxford University Press, 2014, p. 29 n. 13.
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"Review of Metasemantics: New Essays on the Foundations of Meaning". Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews.
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^ Stainton, Robert J.
Philosophical Perspectives on Language. Peterborough, Ont., Broadview Press, 1996, p. 36.
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^ Kasia M. Jaszczolt, Meaning in Linguistic Interaction: Semantics, Metasemantics, Philosophy of Language, Oxford University Press, 2016, p. viii.
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^ Ori Simchen, Semantics, Metasemantics, Aboutness, Oxford University Press, 2017, p. xiii.