What It All Means: Semantics for (Almost) Everything (Hardcover)

Acknowledgments ix
Introduction xi
Prologue: Primate Meanings xxiii
1 Meaning in the Wild 1
Part I: The Building Blocks of Meaning 37
2 Visible Logic: Sign Language and Pronouns 39
3 Me, Me, Me! Perspectives in Language 69
4 Nouns and Verbs: Objects and Events 91
5 Beyond the Here and Now I: From Objects to Situations 111
6 Beyond the Here and Now II: Describing and Classifying Objects and Situations 127
Part II: Using Meaning 145
7 Logic Machine I: Predicate Logic 147
8 Logic Machine II: English as a Formal Language 157
9 Logic Machine III: The Expressive Power of Human Language 173
10 Not Quite Saying It: Focus and Implicatures 197
11 Not At Issue: Presuppositions, Supplements, and Expressives 225
Part III: Extending Meaning 245
12 Iconicity Revisited: Sign with Iconicity Versus Speech with Gestures 247
13 Grammar in Gestures 265
14 Meaning in Gestures 287
15 Meaning in Music 303
Epilogue: The Limits of Truth 339
16 The Limits of Truth I: The Riddle of Paradoxes 341
17 The Limits of Truth II: Solving the Riddle of Paradoxes 355
Conclusion 383
Appendix: Phonology, Morphology, and Syntax in Speech and in Sign 389
Glossary 405
Going Further 415
Notes 429
Illustration Sources 451
Index 455