The Semantics of Media

Author:   J. Ross
Publisher:   Springer
Edition:   1997 ed.
Volume:   64
ISBN:  

9780792343899


Pages:   141
Publication Date:   31 January 1997
Format:   Hardback
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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.

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Author:   J. Ross
Publisher:   Springer
Imprint:   Springer
Edition:   1997 ed.
Volume:   64
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 1.10cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   0.880kg
ISBN:  

9780792343899


ISBN 10:   0792343891
Pages:   141
Publication Date:   31 January 1997
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

1. Media.- 1. Language and the Study of Content.- 2. The Notion of Media.- 3. Media and Attitudes.- 4. The Mechanics of Media.- 2. Basic Propositional Content.- 1. Possible-Worlds Semantics.- 2. Modality.- 3. Counterfactuals.- 4. Media.- 5. The Language L.- 6. The Semantics of Media Terms.- 7. Validity in L.- 8. Summary — The Intensional Package.- 3. Reflections on Content.- 1. Explicit and Implicit Content.- 2. Appearance and Existence.- 3. ‘The World of the Medium’.- 4. With Reference to Characters.- 1. The Particularity Problem.- 2. Character-Sentences.- 3. The Problem of Accidental Reference.- 5. The Semantics of Viewpoint.- 1. Viewpoint.- 2. Categorial Semantics.- 3. Property Semantics.- 4. Viewpoint and the Viewer.- 6. The Semantics of Interaction.- 1. The Problem of Interactions.- 2. Seeing.- 3. Seeing in Films I — The Causal Account.- 4. Content and Causation.- 5. Seeing in Films II — The Intensional Account.- 6. The Intensional Account Probed.- 7. Contexts as Media.- Notes.- References.

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