Philosophy of language

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

This book brings together the study of translation with public sphere theory, in order to discuss social communication as it really happens.

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

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

This volume focuses on the role language plays at all levels of the argumentation process.

This book explains exactly what human knowledge is.

This monograph examines truth in fiction by applying the techniques of a naturalized logic of human cognitive practices.

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 book applies phenomenological methodology to examine the transformations of messages as they pass from the mind to the linear world of human speech, and then back again.

This engaging book examines the origins and first effects of the concept 'legal semiotics', focusing on the inventor of the term, Roberta Kevelson (1931-1998).

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 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 is about the representations - both visual and linguistic - which people give of their own places of origin.

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

This edited volume presents new lines of research dealing with the language of thought and its philosophical implications in the time of Ockham.

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 volume sheds a new light on Philosophical Investigations, Ludwig Wittgenstein's master opus, by taking a new approach to its first stretch (sections 1-88), with special emphasis on its atypical opening.

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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.

This volume features fourteen essays that examine the works of key figures within the phenomenological movement in a clear and accessible way.

This monograph examines truth in fiction by applying the techniques of a naturalized logic of human cognitive practices.

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

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

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

This book explores how Wittgenstein's personal life provided more of a reference point for his philosophical work than has been previously thought.

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 brings together in one place David Hitchcock's most significant published articles on reasoning and argument.

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 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.

This monograph presents Azzouni's new approach to the rule-following paradox.

This book proposes a radically evolutionary approach to biolinguistics that consists in considering human language as a form of species-specific intelligence entirely embodied in the corporeal structures of Homo sapiens.

This volume features essays about and by Paul Benacerraf, whose ideas have circulated in the philosophical community since the early nineteen sixties, shaping key areas in the philosophy of mathematics, the philosophy of language, the philosophy of logic, and epistemology.

This volume is the second part of a project which hosts an interdisciplinary discussion about the relationship among law and language, legal practice and ordinary conversation, legal philosophy and the linguistics sciences.

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

This volume offers recent developments in pragmatics and adjacent territories of investigation, including important new concepts such as the pragmatic act and the pragmeme, and combines developments in neighboring disciplines in an integrative holistic pragmatic approach.

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

This book explores the intersections between dreaming and the literary imagination, in light of the findings of recent neurocognitive and empirical research, with the aim to lay a groundwork for an empirically informed aesthetics of dreaming.

This monograph on indirect reports offers insights on the semantics/pragmatics interface and a refinement of the notion of explicature.

This book examines the seventeenth-century project for a "e;real"e; or "e;universal"e; character: a scientific and objective code.

"e;According to the words of Phaedrus in the Symposium of Plato, Love, sometimes named Eros, has no parents, no age, no history, and its origin remains unknown to anyone.

This book examines linguistic expressions of emotion in intensional contexts and offers a formally elegant account of the relationship between language and emotion.

This book explores the construction of agreement in the argumentative process, aiming to investigate how the activation of shared knowledge, values and beliefs leads to the creation of a common ground between the speaker and the audience in the pursuit of persuasion.

This volume provides the reader with exclusive insights into Ernest Sosa's latest ideas as well as main aspects of his philosophical work of the last 50 years.

This book explores new territory at the interface between semantics and pragmatics, reassessing a number of linguistic phenomena in the light of recent advances in pragmatic theory.

This book showcases the history and theory of pragmatism and its alignment to the sensibilities of contemporary analytic philosophy.

This volume highlights important aspects of the complex relationship between common language and legal practice.

This book introduces Meaningful Purposive Interaction Analysis (MPIA) theory, which combines social network analysis (SNA) with latent semantic analysis (LSA) to help create and analyse a meaningful learning landscape from the digital traces left by a learning community in the co-construction of knowledge.