Philosophy of language

An in-depth and far-reaching account of the study of ''African languages'' and ''language in Africa'' as an autonomous academic discipline.

Gottlob Frege (1848-1925) is considered the father of modern logic and one of the founding figures of analytic philosophy.

Winner, ASA (American Society for Aesthetics) 2023 Outstanding Monograph Prize

For Theodore Gracyk meaning in popular music depends as much on the context of reception and performer's intentions as on established musical and semantic practices.

This book examines Hegel within his broader historical and philosophical contexts and introduces his highly varied and influential works.

This book investigates the manner in which the Qur'an and sunna depict female personalities in their narrative literature.

This volume attempts to solve a grave problem about critical self-reflection.

This volume presents Price''s distinctive version of the traditional representationalism/naturalism combination, with commentary by four other major figures.

This book proposes a comprehensive discussion of the issue of linguistic feeling, the subject's metalinguistic capacity to intuitively apprehend the normative - lexical, syntactic, morphological, phonological.

In 1945 Alonzo Church issued a pair of referee reports in which he anonymously conveyed to Frederic Fitch a surprising proof showing that wherever there is (empirical) ignorance there is also logically unknowable truth.

The cogito ergo sum of Descartes is one of the best-known (and simplest) of all philosophical formulations, but ever since it was first propounded it has defied any formal accounting of its validity.

This third edition includes a new and specially written introduction by James McGilvray, contextualising the work for the twenty-first century.

This book offers a collection of papers on focal themes in truth research, including minimalism, pragmatism and pluralism, and philosophical logic.

Semantic externalism is the view that the meanings of referring terms, and the contents of beliefs that are expressed by those terms, are not fully determined by factors internal to the speaker but are instead bound up with the environment.

For centuries, investigations into the origins of words were entwined with investigations into the origins of humanity and the cosmos.

The media frenzy surrounding the 1996 resolution by the Oakland School Board brought public attention to the term "e;Ebonics"e;, however the idea remains a mystery to most.

We usually consider literary thinking to be peripheral and dispensable, an activity for specialists: poets, prophets, lunatics, and babysitters.

Henrik Ibsen's plays have long beguiled philosophically-oriented readers.

This book investigates Chinese comprehension and treatment of the relationship between language and reality.

This book considers important aspects of the syntax of sentences and their relation to the extra-sentential context.

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 book offers a critical update of current Wittgenstein research on the Tractatus logico-philosophicus (TLP) and its relation to the Vienna Circle.

This volume is the first of its kind to explore the notion of untranslatability from a wide variety of interdisciplinary perspectives and its implications within the broader context of translation studies.

Eurocentrism, Qur?

This collection advocates for a more holistic picture of metaphor, extending the field's focus beyond the cognitive paradigm and conventional metaphorical concepts to illustrate the possibilities afforded by the study of living metaphors.

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

This definitive sourcebook presents more than sixty authoritative new translations of key Islamic texts.

This book makes the Qur'an accessible to the English-speaking student who lacks the linguistic background to read it in the original Arabic by offering accessible translations of, and commentary on, a series of selected passages that are representative of the Islamic scripture.

The first volume of a world-renowned scholar's long-awaited Qur'an commentary, now available in English Angelika Neuwirth's six-volume commentary, published originally in Germany, offers a historical and philological analysis of the form, structure, and semantic message of each of the 114 Qur'anic suras.

This first book-length study of the work and life of L.

This book traces the concept of melancholy in Walter Benjamin's early writings.

"Ser y movimiento, un libro valiente, describe una ontología del ser como movimiento y una concepción materialista de las prácticas ontológicas que subyacen a las ontologías occidentales anteriores del espacio, la eternidad, la fuerza y el tiempo.

Spanning more than two decades of thinking about generative approaches to Universal Grammar, the two interviews with Noam Chomsky in this book permit a rare and illuminating insight into his views on numerous issues in linguistics and beyond.

This book sets out how contemporary Iranian scholars have approached the Qur?

What does 'if' mean?

First published in 1988, Modern Anti-Realism and Manufactured Truth examines the forms of anti-realism which have sprouted in analytic philosophy and addresses more directly the grander culture of anti-realism.

This book offers the first sustained investigation of the phenomenon of retraction - the "e;taking back"e; of the conventional or deontic effects of a previous speech act - bringing together issues and solutions from the semantics of perspectival expressions and from the framework of Speech Act theory.

Ein sprachlich ungefilterter Zugriff auf die Realität ist unmöglich.

Asay provides a fresh and daring perspective on the age-old question ''What is truth?

First published in 1972, Philosophical Tasks was written to identify and examine some central themes in contemporary Anglo-American philosophy.

Stanislas Breton's A Radical Philosophy of Saint Paul, which focuses on the political implications of the apostle's writings, was an instrumental text in Continental philosophy's contemporary "e;turn to religion.

This volume is a series of nine (9) contributions to our understanding of relativization strategies in eleven (11) languages of Cameroon spread into the seven (7) sub-branches of the Niger-Congo phylum: Ekoid, Mambiloid, Mamfe, Mbam, Narrow Bantu, Wide Grassfields, Yemne-Kimbi.

This book sets out to identify the nature and implications of a proper understanding of pluralism in a original and illuminating way.