Philosophy of language

Together with the volume "e;Inquiries in philosophical pragmatics: Linguistic and theoretical issues,"e; this book provides a journey through the more recent developments of pragmatics, considering both its philosophical and linguistic nature.

Presenting the first comprehensive, in-depth study of hyperintensionality, this book equips readers with the basic tools needed to appreciate some of current and future debates in the philosophy of language, semantics, and metaphysics.

The two sections of this volume present theoretical developments and practical applicative papers respectively.

Offering a radical reassessment of 1930s British literature, this volume questions the temporal limits of the literary decade, and broadens the scope of queer literary studies to consider literary-historical responses to a variety of behaviours encompassed by the term 'queer' in its many senses.

This volume addresses the intriguing issue of indirect reports from an interdisciplinary perspective.

This book offers innovative investigations of the concept of life in art and in theory.

This book asks how we-as citizens, immigrants, activists, teachers-can counter the abuse of language in our midst.

The wide-ranging European perspectives brought together in this volume aim to analyse, by means of an interdisciplinary approach, the numerous implications of a massive shift in the conception of 'work' and the category of 'worker'.

This work presents the structure, distribution and semantic interpretation of quantificational expressions in languages from diverse language families and typological profiles.

This book presents cutting-edge concepts on the question of trust.

This handbook is a comprehensive practical resource on corpus linguistics.

This book presents and discusses the varying and seminal role which colour plays in the development of Wittgenstein's philosophy.

This book focuses on dialog from a varied combination of fields: Linguistics, Philosophy of Language and Computation.

This present book explores recent advances in modeling discourse processes, in particular, new approaches aimed at understanding pathological language behavior specific to schizophrenia.

This book compares the historical development of ideas about language in two major traditions of linguistic scholarship from either end of Eurasia - the Graeco-Roman and the Sinitic - as well as their interaction in the modern era.

This edited collection brings linguistics into contact with a millennia of works by Buddhist scholars.

This book systematically investigates what follows about meaning in language if current views on the limited, or even redundant, role of linguistic semantics are taken to their radical conclusion.

This book brings together the work of Ludwig Wittgenstein and Jacques Lacan around their treatments of 'astonishment,' an experience of being struck by something that appears to be extraordinarily significant.

This book provides a refreshingly new perspective for investigating linguistic texts, which foregrounds models of the human.

This book investigates the study of World Englishes from the perspective of Cultural Linguistics, a theoretical and analytical framework for cultural cognition, cultural conceptualisations and language that employs and expands on the analytical tools and theoretical advancements in a number of disciplines, including cognitive psychology/science, anthropology, distributed cognition, and complexity science.

Over the past few years, the tree model of time has been widely employed to deal with issues concerning the semantics of tensed discourse.

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This book presents a new approach to semantics based on Kazimierz Ajdukiewicz's Directival Theory of Meaning (DTM), which in effect reduces semantics of the analysed language to the combination of its syntax and pragmatics.

Logical form has always been a prime concern for philosophers belonging to the analytic tradition.

This book presents selected academic papers addressing five key research areas - archaeology, history, language, culture and arts - related to the Malay Civilisation.

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This book considers the Arabic biographies of Prophet Muhammad, the earliest of which dates from two centuries after his life.

The issue of Muslim women's rights never seems outdated and has become trendy in the post-9/11 environment.

Lysaker examines the relationship between philosophical thought and the act of writing to explore how this dynamic shapes the field of philosophy.

The widespread understanding of language in the West is that it represents the world.

Robert Brandom's Making It Explicit: Reasoning, Representing and Discursive Commitment is one of the most significant, talked about and daunting books published in philosophy in recent years.

In the aftermath of debate about the death of literary theory, Austin E.

There are few forms in which so much authority has been invested with so little reflection as the sentence.

When social scientists and social theorists turn to the work of philosophers for intellectual and practical authority, they typically assume that truth, reality, and meaning are to be found outside rather than within our conventional discursive practices.

Understanding Islam's sacred text is integral to understanding your Muslim neighbor Cross-cultural missionary and scholar Matthew Aaron Bennett blends the insights of Islamic believers, secular Qur'an scholars, and missionaries to Muslims, making The Qur'an and the Christian like no other resource for Christian ministry to Muslims.

This stimulating volume brings together an international team of emerging, mid-career, and senior scholars to investigate the relations between philosophical approaches to language and the language of literature.