Current advances in semantic theory : [selected contributions to the International Symposium on "Models of Meaning", held Sept. 25-28, 1988, in the Druzhba resort near Varna, Bulgaria

This volume contains selected contributions to the interdisciplinary symposium on 'Models of Meaning' held in Varna, September 25-28, 1988, under the auspices of the Institute of the Bulgarian Language of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. The aim of the meeting was to broaden the horizons of meaning research and the modeling of linguistic semantics, with contributions centering on the appropriate modeling of lexical, syntactic, and textual-semantic representations. The papers challenge some basic notions of semantics and reveal two main avenues of development in contemporary investigations. One is toward broadening the scope of investigativeness, the second is toward a greater domain-specificity as expressed in a greater sensitivity to pragmatics and meta-pragmatic concerns. Challenges some basic notions of semantics and reveals two main avenues of development in present investigations. One is toward broadening the scope of integrativeness, the second is toward a greater domain-specificity as expressed in a greater sensitivity to pragmatics and metapragmatic concerns.