Philosophy of language

This book brings together essays from leading scholars who, rather than taking a strictly exegetical approach, attempt to show how discussions in moral philosophy can benefit from Wittgenstein's later philosophical work.

This book uncovers properties of focus association with 'only' by examining the interaction between the particle and bare (or "e;evaluative"e;) gradable terms.

"e;Using his probing intelligence to criticize the views of pundits from Locke to Chomsky, from Ayer to religious apologists, G.

This book contains a comprehensive view of pragmalinguistic studies and their recent ramifications, boasting some of the most advanced recent research in pragmatics.

Law can be seen as a motley of different languages deployed in the legal domain.

First published in 1983.

Literature can have a disturbing effect on its readers.

The object of this volume is the study of missionary translation practices which occur within a colonial context of political domination and spiritual conquest.

This edited volume presents an innovative perspective on conversation and is the first book to deal with the epistemic aspects of conversation or dialogue.

Argument and imagination are often interdependent.

This book discusses the concept of indirect reporting in relation to sociopragmatic, philosophical, and cognitive factors.

Truth without Objectivity provides a critique of the mainstream view of 'meaning'.

This book argues that the complex, anthropocentric, and often culture-specific meanings of words have been shaped directly by their history of 'utility' for communication in social life.

Knowledge in an Uncertain World is an exploration of the relation between knowledge, reasons, and justification.

Based on extensive fieldwork in the community of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians in western North Carolina, this book uses a semiotic approach to investigate the historic and contemporary role of the Sequoyan syllabary--the written system for representing the sounds of the Cherokee language--in Eastern Cherokee life.

Wittgenstein is one of the most important and influential twentieth-century philosophers in the western tradition.

This present book explores recent advances in modeling discourse processes, in particular, new approaches aimed at understanding pathological language behavior specific to schizophrenia.

This book offers two novel claims about Wittgenstein's views and methods on perception as explored in the Philosophical Investigations.

Kant y Jean Paul concuerdan, en el marco de una teoria del conocimiento, que un saber absoluto que tenga el ser humano sobre las cosas y sobre si mismo es inalcanzable.

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

Victor Dudman's revolutionary English Grammar brings grammar and logic together by conceiving grammar as 'the necessary preliminary to logic'.

The present volume is as much a book co-authored by all the contributors as it is an edited collection of their papers.

Brian Loar (1939-2014) was an eminent and highly respected philosopher of mind and language.

This book looks at three different kinds of writing practice - theory-fiction, autofiction/autotheory and art writing - that are increasingly prevalent as genres (or 'hybrid genres') in the arts and critical humanities.

This book explores African philosophic sagacity, or wisdom philosophy, as proposed by Odera Oruka in his "e;Four Trends in Current African Philosophy"e; (1981), which he later expanded to six trends (1998).

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

Tracing the deep connections between philosophy and education, Ryan McInerney argues that we must use philosophy to reflect on the significance of educational practice to all human endeavour.

Logical empiricism is a philosophical movement that flourished in the 1920s and 30s in Central Europe and in the 1940s and 50s in the United States.

Michel Foucault defined critique as an exercise in de-subjectivation.

This work provides a philosophical framework within which the free speech clause of the Constitution's First Amendment may be understood.

Originally published in 1988.

A Muslim Reformist in Communist Yugoslavia examines the Islamic modernist thought of Husein ozo, a prominent Balkan scholar.

Philosophy of language has a rich and varied history stretching back to the Ancient Greeks.

This book concerns the nature and the norms of inquiry.

According to the dominant theory of meaning, truth-conditional semantics, to explain the meaning of a statement is to specify the conditions necessary and sufficient for its truth.

The conviction that we all have, possess or inhabit a discrete culture, and have done so for centuries, is one of the more dominant default assumptions of our contemporary politico-intellectual moment.

Die Debatte zwischen Internalismus und Externalismus steht im Brennpunkt der Aufmerksamkeit sowohl in der Epistemologie als auch in der Philosophie des Geistes und der Sprache.

This book is a systematic and historical exploration of the philosophical significance of grammar.

David Chalmers develops a picture of reality on which all truths can be derived from a limited class of basic truths.