The document discusses the statement "The Snowman of Jenna is cold" and analyzes it using different frameworks including aboutness, information, work-instantiation, FRBR, semantics, and metatheory. It breaks down the statement and relates it to concepts like propositions, sentences, and utterances. It also references that there is "no telling" which metatheory might help with the analysis.
5. Aboutness
s1: “The Snowman of Jenna is cold”
t1: “’The Snowman of Jenna is cold’
is about the Snowman of Jenna”
z11: The Snowman of Jenna
z12: <The Snowman of Jenna>
z13: “The Snowman of Jenna”
s2: “Non-cold things are non-Snowmen of
Jenna”
z2: Non-cold things
7. Work-instantiation
s1: “The Snowman of Jenna is cold”
FRBR SEMANTICS
Work Proposition
Text (Expression)
Sentence
Edition (Manifestation)
Item Utterance
What if our starting point were the Snowman of Jenna himself, rather than the proposition that he is cold? Isn’t the Snowman of Jenna, like the legendary Antelope of Suzanne, a document? Then wherein lies hisitemhood, his texthood, his workhood? And can we say that he, rather than any depiction or representation of him, has subjects? Or are those subjects properties of the contexts in which he is represented rather than properties of the snowman himself?