Philosophy of language

The central question of naturalism - the relation of philosophy to science - was one of the defining strands of twentieth-century thought and remains a major source of debate and controversy.

Why should we learn more than one language?

In recent years, the study of events and their role as implicit arguments of predicates has been at the center of much important work in semantics and the syntax/semantics interface.

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

Over the course of six sections, this rich reference book explores the various areas of Qur'anic studies:its language,the history of its documentation,its many disciplines,the methods of interpretation,its inimitability,and finally, as a work of art.

Logic is of course a general resource for reasoning at large.

Presenting a fascinating analysis of the idea of what can't be said, this book ascertains whether the notion of there being a truth, or a state of affairs, or knowledge that can't be expressed linguistically is a coherent notion.

Mark Jago presents an original philosophical account of meaningful thought: in particular, how it is meaningful to think about things that are impossible.

A prevailing view of argumentation is overturned to advance practices for analyzing, evaluating, and designing disagreement management in complex communication.

Though James Joyce was steeped in philosophy and humanism, he has received too little attention from contemporary philosophers in comparison to many of the other titans of modernist fiction.

This handsome new edition of Stanley Cavell's landmark text, first published 20 years ago, provides a new preface that discusses the reception and influence of his work, which occupies a unique niche between philosophy and literary studies.

RUSSELL AND THE LINGUISTIC PHILOSOPHY I t is generally acknowledged that Bertrand Russell played a vital role in the so-called "e;revolution"e; that has taken place in twentieth century Anglo-American philosophy, the revolution that has led many philo- sophers virtually to equate philosophy with some variety - or varieties - of linguistic analysis.

Propositions has two main goals.

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

Language in Cognition argues that language is based on the human construal of reality.

This book provides an up-to-date introduction to the study of generics and pursues the enterprise of the influential Generic Book edited by Gregory Carlson and Jeffry Pelletier, which was published in 1995.

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

The nature of truth is a current preoccupation both in political and social debates.

In this volume, Maher contextualizes the work of a group of contemporary analytic philosophers-The Pittsburgh School-whose work is characterized by an interest in the history of philosophy and a commitment to normative functionalism, or the insight that to identify something as a manifestation of conceptual capacities is to place it in a space of norms.

Proper Names explores the aims and scope of the Millian approach to the semantics of proper names.

This Routledge Revival, first published in 1985, gives detailed attention to the bearing of literary theory on questions of truth, meaning and reference.

Is there a connection between the environmental, climate, and political crises facing us today and Western dualism?

This book affords a neopragmatic theory of animal ethics, taking its lead from American Pragmatism to place language at the centre of philosophical analysis.

First published in 1982, this book looks at a wide variety of issues concerning the vast field of study that is 'semiotics.

How did social communication evolve in primates?

The concepts of mind and soul have occupied the thoughts of philosophers throughout the ages and have given rise to numerous conflicting theories.

Vives' Schrift »Gegen die Pseudodialektiker«, die von Thomas Morus und Erasmus von Rotterdam hoch gelobt wurde und stark von Morus und Lorenzo Valla beeinflusst ist, wurde von vielen seiner Zeitgenossen lebhaft rezipiert.

Exploring the potential of poetry and poetic language as a means of conveying perspectives on later life, this book examines questions such as 'how can we understand ageing and later life?

This book utilizes archive research, interviews and historical analysis to present a comprehensive overview of the works of Christine Brooke-Rose.

Reading The Phenomenology of Spirit through a linguistic lens, Jeffrey Reid provides an original commentary on Hegel's most famous work.

This book advances a reading of Wittgenstein's Tractatus that moves beyond the main interpretative options of the New Wittgenstein debate.

This book presents a state-of-the-art account of what we know and would like to know about language, mind, and brain.

Provides a unique angle, by linking insights from theoretical advances in generative syntax to phenomena from language variation and change.

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For anyone, non-Muslim or Muslim, who wants to know how to approach, read, and understand the text of the Qur'an, How to Read the Qur'an offers a compact introduction and readers guide.

Sebastian Knell untersucht die Sprach- und Intentionalitätstheorie, die Robert B.

This book explores the various choices speakers or communicators make when expressing power relations in modern societies.

Navigating a diversity of religious myths and worldviews in both conventional and nuanced secular ways, this edited volume explores transdisciplinary common knowledge and global citizenship ideology through the lens of spirituality, depth hermeneutics, and multimodality.

Roman Jakobson stands alone in his semiotic theory of poetic analysis which combines semiotics, linguistics and structuralist poetics.

Die klassisch-arabische Philologie hat wichtige Konzepte in verschiedensten sprachwissenschaftlichen Bereichen hervorgebracht.