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        Mathematical Models of Meaning

        Mathematical Models of Meaning

        Mathematical Models of Meaning

        A Dynamic Systems Approach to Possible World Semiotics

        by Paul Kockelman

        ISBN: 9780262552684

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: August 19, 2025

        A mathematical model of meaning that captures the dynamics and diversity of meaning-oriented agents.
        What It All Means

        What It All Means

        What It All Means

        Semantics for (Almost) Everything

        by Philippe Schlenker

        ISBN: 9780262047432

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: November 22, 2022

        How meaning works—from monkey calls to human language, from spoken language to sign language, from gestures to music—and how meaning is connected to truth.
        Semantics as Science

        Semantics as Science

        Semantics as Science

        by Richard K. Larson

        Illustrated by Kimiko Ryokai and Stephen Nash

        ISBN: 9780262539951

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: November 22, 2022

        An introductory linguistics textbook that takes a novel approach: studying linguistic semantics as an exercise in scientific theory construction.
        Syntax in the Treetops

        Syntax in the Treetops

        Syntax in the Treetops

        by Shigeru Miyagawa

        ISBN: 9780262543491

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: May 3, 2022

        A proposal that syntax extends to the domain of discourse in making core syntax link to the conversational context.
        Quotations as Pictures

        Quotations as Pictures

        Quotations as Pictures

        by Josef Stern

        Revised by William G. Lycan

        ISBN: 9780262543132

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: February 15, 2022

        The proposal of a semantics for quotations using explanatory notions drawn from philosophical theories of pictures.
        Cynicism

        Cynicism

        Cynicism

        by Ansgar Allen

        ISBN: 9780262537889

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: April 14, 2020

        A short history of cynicism, from the fearless speech of the ancient Greeks to the jaded negativity of the present.
        Irony and Sarcasm

        Irony and Sarcasm

        Irony and Sarcasm

        by Roger Kreuz

        ISBN: 9780262538268

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: February 18, 2020

        A biography of two troublesome words.
        A Course in Semantics

        A Course in Semantics

        A Course in Semantics

        by Daniel Altshuler, Terence Parsons and Roger Schwarzschild

        ISBN: 9780262042772

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: September 3, 2019

        An introductory text in linguistic semantics, uniquely balancing empirical coverage and formalism with development of intuition and methodology.
        ’And’

        'And'

        'And'

        Conjunction Reduction Redux

        by Barry Schein

        ISBN: 9780262035637

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: July 21, 2017

        A bold argument that “and” always means “&,” the truth-functional sentential connective.
        The Geometry of Meaning

        The Geometry of Meaning

        The Geometry of Meaning

        Semantics Based on Conceptual Spaces

        by Peter Gärdenfors

        ISBN: 9780262533751

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: February 24, 2017

        A novel cognitive theory of semantics that proposes that the meanings of words can be described in terms of geometric structures.
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