Philosophy of language

This edited collection of eight original essays pursues the aim of bringing the spotlight back on Anton Marty.

This book shows how pragmatics and philosophy are interconnected, and explores the consequences and ramifications of this innovative idea, especially in addressing and solving the problem of breaking Grice's circle.

This book celebrates the many important contributions to philosophy by one of the leading philosophers in the analytic field, Michael Devitt.

The book comprises a selection of papers concerning the general theme of cultural conceptualizations in language.

This book unlocks the Jewish theology of YHWH in three central stages of Jewish thought: the Hebrew bible, rabbinic literature, and medieval philosophy and mysticism.

This book approaches classic epistemological problems from a contextualist perspective.

This volume serves as a reference on the field of cognitive semantics.

This book discusses the concept of indirect reporting in relation to sociopragmatic, philosophical, and cognitive factors.

"e;Tell me,"e; Wittgenstein once asked a friend, "e;why do people always say, it was natural for man to assume that the sun went round the earth rather than that the earth was rotating?

This is the first English-language guidebook geared at an interdisciplinary audience that reflects relevant scholarly developments related to the legacy and legitimacy of Ferdinand de Saussure's Course in General Linguistics (1916) today.

This book investigates the role of inference in argumentation, considering how arguments support standpoints on the basis of different loci.

Sortal concepts are at the center of certain logical discussions and have played a significant role in solutions to particular problems in philosophy.

This volume presents new conceptual and experimental studies which investigate the connection between vagueness and rationality from various systematic directions, such as philosophy, linguistics, cognitive psychology, computing science, and economics.

This book investigates the significance of Wittgenstein's philosophy for aesthetic understanding.

This book argues that a basic grasp of philosophy and logic can produce written and spoken material that is both grammatically correct and powerful.

This study examines the marital data preserved within the Arabic genealogical works of the early ninth century CE in order to better understand the tribal relationships of the pre-Islamic Quraysh (the Arabic tribe to which Muhammad belonged).

This Pivot studies the influence of Julia Kristeva's work on American literary and film studies.

This book serves as a basis for the exploration of language in a more systematic way.

Truth is a pervasive feature of ordinary language, deserving of systematic study, and few theorists of truth have endeavoured to chronicle the tousled conceptual terrain forming the non-philosopher's ordinary view.

This volume clusters together issues centered upon the variety of types of intensional semantics.

This book utilizes archive research, interviews and historical analysis to present a comprehensive overview of the works of Christine Brooke-Rose.

This volume presents eight papers and a draft monograph by T.

This book brings together chapters on the semantics and pragmatics of measurement, scales, and numerical expressions.

This book develops a novel generalization of possible world semantics, called 'world line semantics', which recognizes worlds and links between world-bound objects (world lines) as mutually independent aspects of modal semantics.

This book builds on the idea that pragmatics and philosophy are strictly interconnected and that advances in one area will generate consequential advantages in the other area.

This volume presents studies on pronouns in embedded contexts, and offers fundamental insights into this central area of research.

The book illustrates how the human ability to adapt to the environment and interact with it can explain our linguistic representation of the world as constrained by our bodies and sensory perception.

This volume showcases contemporary, ground-up ethical essays in the tradition of Wittgenstein's broader philosophy and Wittgenstein-inspired ethical reflection.

This edited book offers a broad selection of interdisciplinary studies within cognitive science.

This book presents reflections on the relationship between narratives and argumentative discourse.

This book argues against the mainstream view that we should treat propositional attitudes as internal states, suggesting that to treat beliefs as things of certain sort (i.

The chapters in this volume address a variety of issues surrounding quotation, such as whether it is a pragmatic or semantic phenomenon, what varieties of quotation exist, and what speech acts are involved in quoting.

This volume brings together a diverse range of scholars to address important philosophical and interdisciplinary questions in the study of language.

This book proposes a new solution to the problem of vagueness.

This textbook is a logic manual which includes an elementary course and an advanced course.

This book reconsiders the supposed impossibility of deriving "e;Ought"e; from "e;Is"e;.

This volume brings together a wide array of papers which explore, among other things, to what extent languages and cultures are variable with respect to the interactions around the event of death.

This book discusses developments in the study of implicatures and presuppositions, drawing on recent linguistic and psycholinguistic literature.

This volume is an interdisciplinary exploration of the modalities, meanings, and practices of silence in contemporary social discourse.

The volume honours Eva Picardi - her philosophical views and interests, as well as her teaching - collecting eighteen essays, some by former students of hers, some by colleagues with whom she discussed and interacted.

Den Belangen der menschlichen Seele hat sich Ludwig Wittgenstein nahezu in seinem gesamten philosophischen Schaffen gewidmet – doch v.

This book addresses two related questions that have first arisen in Toulmin's seminal book on the uses of argument.

This book is all about the captivating ability that the human language has to express intricately logical (mathematical) meanings using tiny (microsemantic) morphemes as utilities.

This book presents the results of a large-scale experiment into interpretations of the metaphor "e;the Nation as a Body"e; among 1,800+ respondents from 30 linguistic and cultural backgrounds.

This book explores heterogeneity in the Indian academic setting.

This book tells a great philosophical tale.

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

Best known for his groundbreaking and influential work in Buddhist philosophy, Mark Siderits is the pioneer of "e;fusion"e; or "e;confluence philosophy"e;, a boldly systematic approach to doing philosophy premised on the idea that rational reconstruction of positions in one tradition in light of another can sometimes help address perennial problems and often lead to new and valuable insights.

Combining semantics, pragmatics, and philosophy, this is a guide on how to think about meaning like a linguist and philosopher.