What is—or, for that Matter, isn’t—‘Experimental’ Semantics?
| Autor: | Pauline Jacobson |
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| Rok vydání: | 2018 |
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| Zdroj: | The Science of Meaning ISBN: 0198739540 Oxford Scholarship |
| DOI: | 10.1093/oso/9780198739548.003.0001 |
| Popis: | This chapter examines the currently fashionable notion of ‘experimental semantics’, and argues that most work in natural language semantics has always been experimental. The oft-cited dichotomy between ‘theoretical’ (or ‘armchair’) and ‘experimental’ is bogus and should be dropped form the discourse. The same holds for dichotomies like ‘intuition-based’ (or ‘thought experiments’) vs. ‘empirical’ work (and ‘real experiments’). The so-called new ‘empirical’ methods are often nothing more than collecting the large-scale ‘intuitions’ or, doing multiple thought experiments. Of course the use of multiple subjects could well allow for a better experiment than the more traditional single or few subject methodologies. But whether or not this is the case depends entirely on the question at hand. In fact, the chapter considers several multiple-subject studies and shows that the particular methodology in those cases does not necessarily provide important insights, and the chapter argues that some its claimed benefits are incorrect. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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