Evaluative Semantics Language, Cognition, and Ideology
Evaluative Semantics Language, Cognition, and Ideology by Jean Pierre Malrieu, published by Psychology Press in 1999, offers a comprehensive study of evaluation in natural language across various levels, including lexical, syntactic, and discursive. This 316-page work addresses the often-overlooked aspects of meaning related to connotations and complex judgments of value, advocating for a new understanding of truth and value in language.
Readers will find an exploration of the cognitive foundations of evaluation, with Malrieu employing connectionist networks to model evaluative processes. The book also examines the social dimensions of evaluation, emphasizing how ideological contexts influence evaluative variability. Additionally, it discusses compositionality and opacity, presenting a semantics of evaluation that offers advantages over traditional truth-conditional semantics. Malrieu’s application of his evaluative semantics to a complex Shakespeare text illustrates the model’s utility in identifying subtle rhetorical devices, including irony.
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Evaluation, from connotations to complex judgements of value, is probably the most neglected dimension of meaning. Calling for a new understanding of truth and value, this book is a comprehensive study of evaluation in natural language, at lexical, syntactic and discursive levels. Jean Pierre Malrieu explores the cognitive foundations of evaluation and uses connectionist networks to model evaluative processes. He takes into account the social dimension of evaluation, showing that ideological contexts account for evaluative variability. A discussion of compositionality and opacity leads to the argument that a semantics of evaluation has some key advantages over truth-conditional semantics and as an example Malrieu applies his evaluative semantics to a complex Shakespeare text. His connectionist model yields a mathematical estimation of the consistency of text with ideology, and is particularly useful in the identification of subtle rhetorical devices such as irony.
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