A Davidsonian Truth-theoretic Semantics Treatment of an EkeGusii Proverb  

作　　者：Evans Gesura Mecha Isaac Nilson Opande 

机构地区：[1]Kisii University,Kenya

出　　处：《宏观语言学》2021年第2期68-94,共27页Macrolinguistics

摘　　要：The paper examines some doctrines of the Davidsonian Programme of truth conditional Semantics that relates truth to meaning using Tarski’s T-Convention,in relation to its efficacy in a semantic valuation of the EkeGusii proverb:Nda’indongi ereta morogi ereta moibi which exemplifies a kind of complex sentence that a given system of Semantics is meant to account for.The coverage of Davidsonian truth-conditional notion of T-convention and that of compositionality are considered to have only a partial reach in accounting for the meaning of the proverb by not incorporating pragmatic aspects.The failure of T-convention is not alleviated by the adoption of radical interpretation as posited by Davidson but is extended to consider aspects of pragmatic enrichment and dynamic Semantics.

关 键 词：truth-conditions PRAGMATICS axiomatic truth-conditional semantics composi-tionality radical interpretation 

分 类 号：H31[语言文字—英语]