Philosophy of language

An accessible introduction to the key topics in theoretical pragmatics, including Grice, speech acts, relevance theory, and politeness.

An accessible introduction to the key topics in theoretical pragmatics, including Grice, speech acts, relevance theory, and politeness.

This book examines phenomenal conservatism, one of the most influential and promising internalist conceptions of non-inferential justification debated in current epistemology and philosophy of mind.

Am Anfang dieses Essays stand die Faszination über Shakespeares, aber eben auch über Hamlets Omnipräsenz in unserem kulturellen Gedächtnis, stand das Staunen über einen nicht enden wollenden Diskurs.

The past few decades have seen considerable interest in the history of analytic philosophy.

El cielo, los cuadros de Yves Klein, los jeans, la lengua de la jirafa, la mirada de un escandinavo, la sangre noble, el terciopelo de la película de David Lynch o las venas bajo la piel.

This Element solves the problem of modal truthmaking for mathematical anti-realists by providing a novel view of modal truth.

This Element solves the problem of modal truthmaking for mathematical anti-realists by providing a novel view of modal truth.

This Element discusses Wittgenstein''s use of the term ''criteria'' and the post-Wittgensteinian debate.

This Element discusses Wittgenstein''s use of the term ''criteria'' and the post-Wittgensteinian debate.

This book argues that the received view of the distinction between freedom and power must be rejected because it rests on an untenable account of the discursive cognition that endows individuals with the capacity for autonomy and self-governed rationality.

This book presents a genetic-phenomenological approach of existential psychotherapy, articulating its theoretical underpinnings with principles supported by scientific evidence and concluding with clinical examples.

The Great Convergence explores the existential foundations of human consciousness and the deep existential dimensions of reality, as well as their connection to the concept of The Creator.

Given the widespread consensus that the Qur'an was in oral tradition before being committed to written form, it should come as no surprise to learn that the Qur'an still bears the traces of its original oral form.

This book is about supporting students in Higher Education using language, and specifically using a combination of written text based linguistic approaches alongside and with other non-text related languages.

Immanuel Kant is strict about the limits of self-knowledge: our inner sense gives us only appearances, never the reality, of ourselves.

An original and accessible discussion of the nature of religious language that draws on the latest research in the philosophy of language.

Rules and Dispositions in Language Use explains how correct language use is governed by both rules and general human dispositions.

In clear and lively prose that avoids jargon, the author carefully and systematically examines the many kinds of subtly nuanced words or word-pairs of everyday discourse such as 'and'-'but', 'before'-'ere', 'Chinese'-'Chink', and 'sweat'-'perspiration', that have proven resistant to truth-conditional explanations of meaning.

The Event of Style in Literature brings discussions about the question of style up-to-date by schematising the principal issues relating to the topic through a critical overview of the canon of style studies.

Combining a fresh, previously unexplored view of the subject with a detailed overview of the past and ongoing philosophical discussion on the matter, this book investigates the phenomenon of semantic under-determinacy by seeking an answer to the questions of how it can be explained, and how communication is possible despite it.

Saul Kripke's Naming and Necessity was one of the most influential philosophical works of the twentieth century.

This book is an advanced debate on the nature of scalar implicatures, one of the most popular topics in philosophical linguistics in the last 20 years.

In this study two strands of inferentialism are brought together: the philosophical doctrine of Brandom, according to which meanings are generally inferential roles, and the logical doctrine prioritizing proof-theory over model theory and approaching meaning in logical, especially proof-theoretical terms.

This book contains an original analysis of the existential there-sentence from a philosophical-linguistic perspective.

En este libro se cita una y otra vez al filosofo chileno Patricio Marchant, autor de Árboles y madres (Gato Murr, 1984) y Escritura y temblor (Cuarto propio, 2000).

This book explores how and in what ways the relationship between language, mind and computation can be conceived of, given that a number of foundational assumptions about this relationship remain unacknowledged in mainstream linguistic theory, yet continue to be the basis of theoretical developments and empirical advances.

Meaning addresses the fundamental question of human language interaction: what it is to mean, and how we communicate our meanings to others.

Meaning addresses the fundamental question of human language interaction: what it is to mean, and how we communicate our meanings to others.

This book considers Wilfrid Sellars' engagement with Kantian philosophy-both theoretical and practical-in his exegetical work in reading Kant as well as in his own systematic development of Kantian philosophy.

This book offers a self-reflective, critical approach to the study of what is popularly known as polyglossia, charting the gradual but marked process of its commoditization over the last 20 years and offering a counterpoint to mainstream positivist treatment of serial language learning.

This accessible book provides a foundational understanding of the science of deception and lie detection.

This accessible book provides a foundational understanding of the science of deception and lie detection.

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This book tells a great philosophical tale.

A prevailing view of argumentation is overturned to advance practices for analyzing, evaluating, and designing disagreement management in complex communication.

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By comprehensively exploring the theoretical questions raised by professional communication, this book provides an introduction to the philosophy of communication.

This volume explores the compositional semantics of clausal complementation, and proposes a theory in which clause-embedding predicates are uniformly "e;question-oriented"e;, i.

This book presents essays and commentaries that continue on Thomas Kuhn's work from where he left off at the time of his death.

This edited volume on contextualism and pragmatics is interdisciplinary in character and contains contributions from linguistics, cognitive science and socio-pragmatics.

Esta teoría no solo es una muy buena ruta alterna de elucidación de la naturaleza del contenido semántico, sino que hace que la filosofía del lenguaje se replantee la formulación de su problema central: el de la relación entre semántica y pragmática.