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@inbook{711703, author = {Raclavský, Jiří}, address = {Frankfurt am Main}, booktitle = {Philosophy of Language and Linguistics Volume I: The Formal Turn}, edition = {1}, keywords = {natural language logical analysis; principles of semantics; constructions; supposition usualis; suppositio conceptualis}, howpublished = {tištěná verze "print"}, language = {eng}, location = {Frankfurt am Main}, isbn = {978-3-86838-070-5}, pages = {229-243}, publisher = {Ontos Verlag}, title = {Is Logico-Semantical Analysis of Natural Language a Translation?}, year = {2010} }
TY - CHAP ID - 711703 AU - Raclavský, Jiří PY - 2010 TI - Is Logico-Semantical Analysis of Natural Language a Translation? VL - mimo edice PB - Ontos Verlag CY - Frankfurt am Main SN - 9783868380705 KW - natural language logical analysis KW - principles of semantics KW - constructions KW - supposition usualis KW - suppositio conceptualis N2 - The aim of semantical analysis of natural language L is to present expression-meaning pairs. One must surely use certain expression to present any meaning, thus it seems that logical semantics consists in providing translation of expressionsL onto expressionsAL of semantician's artificial language AL (which is a sublanguage of L). However, the meaning of expressionAL should be then explained similar way, by its translation in AL'. An infinite regress of translations arises. To solve the puzzle I propose to distinguish between the analyzed language L and our modeling explicative language AL, whose expressionsAL are meaningful in L only when occurring in suppositio conceptualis, whereas expressionsL are meaningful in L only in suppositio usualis. Their meanings differ a categorical way, so they are not mutually intertranslatable. The matter is natural because the role of explicative language is conceptual - it serves for modeling, thus it cannot have the same semantical character as L. ER -
RACLAVSKÝ, Jiří. Is Logico-Semantical Analysis of Natural Language a Translation? In \textit{Philosophy of Language and Linguistics Volume I: The Formal Turn}. 1st ed. Frankfurt am Main: Ontos Verlag, 2010, p.~229-243, 14 pp. mimo edice. ISBN~978-3-86838-070-5.
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