Philosophy of language

This book provides a comprehensive study on the proclamation of Holy Scriptures as an enacted celebration, as well as its function as a performance within sacralized theatrical spaces.

The aim of this series is to inform both professional philosophers and a larger readership (of social and natural scientists, methodologists, mathematicians, students, teachers, publishers, etc.

The volume provides a thorough look into Marina Sbisa's distinctive, Austinian-inspired approach to speech acts.

This volume comprises two invited talks and fifteen selected papers, chosen from over 200 submissions to the 15th International Conference on the History of Language Sciences (ICHoLS XV).

Christian Hiebaum untersucht die politische Dimension der juristischen Argumentation.

Philosophical Dimensions of Logic and Science is a collection of outstanding contributed papers presented at the 11th International Congress of Logic, Methodology, and Philosophy of Science held in Krakow in 1999.

Most philosophers have taken the importance of Kant's Critique of Judgement to lie primarily in its contributions to aesthetics and to the philosophy of biology.

A concise summary of the most important clinical trials in cardiac and thoracic surgery.

Jurgen Trabant reads the profound insights into human semiosis contained in Vico's 'sematology' as both a spirited rejection of Cartesian philosophy and an early critique of enlightened logocentricism.

This book investigates the relation between language and logic.

Sprache war für Paulus als Missionar das Handwerkszeug, mit dem er die christliche Botschaft vermittelte.

Ludwig Wittgenstein's brief Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus (1922) is one of the most important philosophical works of the twentieth century, yet it offers little orientation for the reader.

Bertrand Russell famously distinguished between 'knowledge by acquaintance' and 'knowledge by description'.

We are often asked to describe ourselves.

Logical consequence is the relation that obtains between premises and conclusion(s) in a valid argument.

This book presents one of the first attempts at developing a precise, grammatically rooted, theory of conversation motivated by data from real conversations.

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

How hearers arrive at intended meaning, which elements encode processing instructions in certain languages, how procedural meaning and prosody interact, how diverse types of utterances are interpreted, how epistemic vigilance mechanisms work, which linguistic elements assist those mechanisms, how a critical attitude to information and informers develops when a second language is learnt, or why some perlocutionary effects originate are some of the varied issues that have intrigued pragmatists, and relevance theorists in particular, and continue to fuel research.

In this book, Scott Soames argues that the revolution in the study of language and mind that has taken place since the late nineteenth century must be rethought.

Truth: Its criteria and conditions is an in-depth critical-and-constructive inquiry in almost equal measure.

Nonexistence is ubiquitous, yet mysterious.

First published in 1959, this book aims to provide a practical introduction to semantics, relating the critical study of language to real-life situation, with a wealth of anecdotes and numerous illustrations drawn from everyday personal predicaments.

This book considers linguistic and mental representations of time.

Originally published in 1973, this volume consists of a sequence of essays in religious thinking, responsive to the impact of Quranic style and emphasis.

The volume is a collection of 12 papers which focus on empirical and theoretical issues associated with syntactic phenomena falling under the rubric of Relativized Minimality (Rizzi 1990) or, in more recent terms, Minimal Link Condition (MLC, Chomsky 1995).

This book aims to explain the decline of the later Wittgensteinian tradition in analytic philosophy during the second half of the twentieth century.

This book covers the topic of discourse and argumentation in archaeology with an aim to serve the archaeology community.

Francois Recanati has pioneered the 'mental file' framework for thinking about concepts and how we refer to the world in thought and language.

Among the several dozens of symposia held on the occasion of the quincentennial of U ppsala University, there was included one symposium devoted to the theme of 'Philosophy and Grammar'.

This book on the life and work of Josef Schachter, member of the Vienna Circle and Rabbi, covers all writings of his Viennese period until 1938.

This handbook provides a critical guide to the most central proposition in modern linguistics: the notion, generally known as Universal Grammar, that a universal set of structural principles underlies the grammatical diversity of the world's languages.

This second edition discusses advances in Chomsky''s science of language, his view of the human mind and its study, and his socioeconomic-political contributions.

This textbook provides an introduction to language typology which assumes minimal prior knowledge of linguistics.

A lucid guide through the labyrinth of Lacanian theoryThis book provides an illuminating account of the theory of subjectivity found in the work of Jacques Lacan.

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

According to George Berkeley (1685-1753), there is fundamentally nothing in the world but minds and their ideas.

This book explores the reflexivity of language both from the perspective of the lay speaker and the linguistic analyst.

In this 2002 book, Noam Chomsky develops his thinking on the relation between language, mind and brain.

Now in an updated second edition, Gabriel Said Reynolds tells the story of Islam in this brief illustrated survey, beginning with Muhammad's early life and rise to power, then tracing the origins and development of the Qur'an juxtaposed with biblical literature, and concluding with an overview of modern and fundamentalist narratives of the origin of Islam.

The first book to examine the controversial Qur'anic phrase which divides Christianity and Islam.

A lucid guide through the labyrinth of Lacanian theoryThis book provides an illuminating account of the theory of subjectivity found in the work of Jacques Lacan.