The meaning of meaning : alternative disciplinary perspectives

Liam Magee

doi:10.1016/B978-1-84334-601-2.50003-9

The meaning of meaning : alternative disciplinary perspectives

Liam Magee

Western Sydney University

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Chapter 3: A guiding thread through discussions of the semantic web is the very general notion of meaning — as something which can be variously reasoned over computationally, generated or processed cognitively, expressed linguistically and transmitted socially. In order to understand how this broad thematic can be conceived in relation to the specifically technological construct of the semantic web, here it is classified and discussed under the following ‘semantic’ rubrics or frames: linguistic semantics, cognitive semantics, social semantics, and computational semantics. This chapter develops the introduction to the semantic web given in the previous chapter by reviewing these frames of how meaning is variously construed; it further serves as a preliminary schematisation of the kinds of variables used to organise, cluster and describe knowledge systems generally.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Towards A Semantic Web: Connecting Knowledge in Academic Research
Editors	Bill Cope, Mary Kalantzis, Liam Magee
Place of Publication	U.K.
Publisher	Chandos
Pages	35-79
Number of pages	45
ISBN (Electronic)	9781780631745
ISBN (Print)	9781843346012
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-1-84334-601-2.50003-9
Publication status	Published - 2011

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