Philosophy of language

Assembling an unprecedented range of considered responses to the noted contributions to philosophy made by Marcelo Dascal, this collection comprises the work of his many friends, colleagues and former students.

This collection is a major contribution to the understanding and evaluation of Ernest Sosa's profound and wide-ranging philosophy, in epistemology and beyond.

This book present a structure for understanding and exploring the semiotic character of law and law systems.

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

Howard Pattee is a physicist who for many years has taken his own path in studying the physics of symbols, which is now a foundation for biosemiotics.

This anthology of papers analyzes a range of specificity markers found in natural languages.

The book offers a characterization of the meaning and role of the notion of truth in natural languages and an explanation of why, in spite of the big amount of proposals about truth, this task has proved to be resistant to the different analyses.

Topical Themes in Argumentation Theory brings together twenty exploratory studies on important subjects of research in contemporary argumentation theory.

Covering a strikingly diverse range of languages from 12 linguistic families, this handbook is based on responses to a questionnaire constructed by the editors.

A logic is called 'paraconsistent' if it rejects the rule called 'ex contradictione quodlibet', according to which any conclusion follows from inconsistent premises.

This book presents an extended dialogue in essay form between specialists in the work of Moses Mendelssohn, and experts in important trends in related late-seventeenth and eighteenth century thought.

Imperative clauses are recognized as one of the major clause types alongside those known as declarative and interrogative.

Numerous volumes have been written on the philosophy of Martin Heidegger, and new translations of his writings appear on a regular basis.

This book argues that languages are composed of sets of 'signs', rather than 'strings'.

This book provides a new, linguistic approach to Argumentation Theory.

This volume of the Argumentation Library contains a collection of twenty-six theor- etical contributions to the study of argumentation.

This book discusses three linguistic projects carried out in the seventeenth century: the artificial languages created by Dalgamo and Wilkins, and Leibniz's uncompleted scheme.

(Over)Interpreting Wittgenstein will be read by philosophers investigating Wittgenstein and by scholars, interpreters, students, and specialists, in both analytic and continental philosophy.

This volume explores how vagueness matters as a specific problem in the context of theories that are primarily about something else.

This monograph first presents a method of diagramming argument macrostructure, synthesizing the standard circle and arrow approach with the Toulmin model.

This book explores the interdisciplinarity of semiotics and communication studies, comprising both theoretical explorations and semiotic applications to communication with theoretical bearings.

This book concerns the nature and the norms of inquiry.

THE TRACTATUS LOGICO-PHILOSOPHICUS is the only book-length philosophical work published by the Austrian philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein in his lifetime.

Language carries more than meanings; language conveys a means of conceiving the world.

This book is about Transparent Intensional Logic, the brainchild of Pavel Tichy.

Singular reference to ourselves and the ordinary objects surrounding us is a most crucial philosophical topic, for it looms large in any attempt to understand how language and mind connect to the world.

Abstract In the chapter some preliminary methodological issues are discussed, including the demarcation between logic and linguistics and the shortcomings of empirical base of the theory of syntax.

During the last decades, legal theory has focused almost completely on norms, rules and arguments as the constitutive elements of law.

I have been thinking about the philosophical issue of truth for more than two decades.

In Fallacies and Judgments of Reasonableness, Frans H.

Jan Wolenski ' and Sandra Lapointe Polish philosophy goes back to the 13th century, when Witelo, famous for his works in optics and the metaphysics of light, lived and worked in Silesia.

Together with its sister volume on Theoretical Cognitive Approaches, this volume explores the contribution which cognitive linguistics can make to the identification and analysis of overt and hidden ideologies.

The relationship between language and conceptualization remains one of the major puzzles in language research.

This volume, a sequel to Form Miming Meaning (1999), offers a selection of papers given at the second international symposium on iconicity (Amsterdam 1999).

Perspectives on Negation and Polarity Items contains a selection of papers on the semantics, acquisition and licensing behavior of negation.

Poetic Effects: A Relevance Theory Perspective offers a pragmatic account of the effects achieved by the poetic use of rhetorical tropes and schemes.

While it has long been taken for granted that context or background information plays a crucial role in reference assignment, there have been very few serious attempts to investigate exactly how they are used.

The roots of pragmatics reach back to Antiquity, especially to rhetoric as one of the three liberal arts.

Changing socio-political landscapes, the dynamics of ‘glocalisation’, among other factors, are spawning new policy attitudes towards multilingualism, and again putting language planning (LP) on the map – in a manner reminiscent of the 1960s and 1970s.

It is increasingly clear that, in order to understand language as a phenomenon, we must understand the phenomenon of text.

In this memorial volume for A.

What is the future of languages in an increasingly globalized world?

Silencing is not only a physically coercive act.

This volume, a sequel to Form Miming Meaning (1999) and The Motivated Sign (2001), offers a selection of papers given at the Third International Symposium on Iconicity in Language and Literature (Jena 2001).

Definition is a basic activity of language, of particular importance to linguists because of its use of language to describe itself.

Using Corpora to Explore Linguistic Variation illustrates the ways in which linguistic variation can be explored through corpus-based investigation.

The shaping of complex meanings depends on punctual and relational coding and inferencing.

This book results from a group meeting held at the Institute for Scientific Exchange in Torino, Italy.

Theory and history combine in this book to form a coherent narrative of the debates on language and languages in the Western world, from ancient classic philosophy to the present, with a final glance at on-going discussions on language as a cognitive tool, on its bodily roots and philogenetic role.

Sverker Johansson has written an unusual book on language origins, with its emphasis on empirical evidence rather than theory-building.