Philosophy of language

The fascinating history of French words that have entered the English language and the fertile but fraught relationship between English- and French-speaking cultures across the worldEnglish has borrowed more words from French than from any other modern foreign language.

Philosophical questions regarding the nature and methodology of philosophical inquiry have garnered much attention in recent years.

Philosophical questions regarding both the existence and nature of properties are ubiquitous in ordinary life, the sciences, and philosophical theorising.

Horst Ruthrof revisits Husserl's phenomenology of language and highlights his late writings as essential to understanding the full range of his ideas.

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.

Words Underway offers the first full account of the important contributions the Continental tradition has made to the philosophy of language.

By comprehensively exploring the theoretical questions raised by professional communication, this book provides an introduction to the philosophy of communication.

Stories about gendered social relations permeate the Qur'an, and nearly three hundred verses involve specific women or girls.

This book is a study of related passages found in the Arabic Qur'an and the Aramaic Gospels, i.

Linguistic theories often suffer from the dilemma that their explanatory power is based on extra-linguistic assumptions.

This accessible guide and introduction to critical applied linguistics provides a clear overview, highlighting problems, debates, and competing views in language education, literacy, discourse analysis, language in the workplace, translation and other language-related domains.

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

This volume brings together the work of a group of Islamic studies scholars from across the globe.

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This book examines the problem of relationships between culture and space.

Spare Rib remains one of the most iconic symbols of Second Wave Feminism, its influence far out-living the span of its publication (1972-1993).

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

Thinking and speaking about time is ridden with puzzles and paradoxes.

Historically, the social aspects of language use have been considered the domain of social psychology, while the underlying psycholinguistic mechanisms have been the purview of cognitive psychology.

This third volume on Missionary Linguistics focuses on morphology and syntax.

Muslims: Their Religious Beliefs and Practices offers a survey of Islamic history and thought from the formative period of the religion to the contemporary period.

Proposes a new empirical model to analyse how humans can express social cognition at different levels of complexity.

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Sixty years after its first edition, there is an increasing consensus among scholars that the work posthumously published as Philosophical Investigations represents something that is far from a complete picture of Wittgenstein's second book project.

Content and Justification presents a series of essays by Paul Boghossian on the theory of content and on its relation to the phenomenon of a priori knowledge.

This monograph deals with argument drop in the German prefield and it presents new insights into null subjects, topic drop and the interpretation of topic dropped elements.

This accessible book provides a foundational understanding of the science of deception and lie detection.

Deservedly so, Jules Vuillemin is widely respected and greatly admired.

The interest in a better understanding of what is constitutive for being a person is a concern philosophy shares with some of the sciences.

Methods and Skills for Philosophy introduces students to methodologies, strategies, heuristics and formal tools which are typically employed in contemporary analytic philosophy.

This study describes the 1200-year history of German quantifying expressions like nioman anderro > niemand anderer 'nobody else', analyzing the morpho-syntactic developments within the generative framework.

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

As the foundation of our rationality, logic has traditionally been considered fixed, stable and constant.

For many Muslims, there is an inseparable connection between sound and meaning, particularly when it comes to Islamic verse and scripture.

In their third book together, Adam B.

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

The reader is invited to follow a route that visits Fish's view of theory and practice,Raz's legal reasoning thesis, theoretical models of judicial review, Dworkin's right answer thesis, the law of the excluded middle and Lukasiewicz's development of three-valued logic, Wittgenstein's language games, and Moore's metaphysical realism.