Philosophy of language

A critical survey of key issues in the analysis of propositional attitude reports, a central topic in natural language semantics.

Saul Kripke is one of the most important philosophers of the twentieth century.

The volume contains ten new essays on Russian literature and thought of the classical age (roughly 1820-1880).

This book explores the reasons for the creation of humanity on Earth from the perspective of ancient and contemporary Muslim thinkers, aiming to lay the outlines of a Qur?

Reference to Abstract Objects in Discourse presents a novel framework and analysis of the ways we refer to abstract objects in natural language discourse.

Our conception of logical space is the set of distinctions we use to navigate the world.

A theory of language structure based on the assumption that language is a network and all of knowledge is learned.

Adolf Reinach was one of the leading figures of the Munich and Gottingen circles of phenomenology, and Husserl's first real co-worker.

Each of us bears a unique name given to us at birth.

This classic work by one of the most important philosophers and critics of our time charts the genesis and trajectory of the desiring subject from Hegel's formulation in Phenomenology of Spirit to its appropriation by Kojeve, Hyppolite, Sartre, Lacan, Deleuze, and Foucault.

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

Dieses Buch legt weiter offen, wer Nofretete / Nefertiti tatsächlich ist, denn sie war nicht nur eine Königin, sondern eben auch .

This book presents the most comprehensive coverage of the field of Indo-European Linguistics in a century, focusing on the entire Indo-European family and treating each major branch and most minor languages.

The concept of 'trigger' is a core concept of Chomsky's Minimalist Program.

This book describes the main objective of EuroWordNet, which is the building of a multilingual database with lexical semantic networks or wordnets for several European languages.

This book examines how early Stuart queens navigated their roles as political players and artistic patrons in a culture deeply conflicted about the legitimacy of female authority.

This Element serves as a guide to Wittgenstein''s notion of forms of life and the debates that it generated.

Keith Donnellan of UCLA is one of the founding fathers of contemporary philosophy of language, along with David Kaplan and Saul Kripke.

Wittgenstein's later writings generate a great deal of controversy and debate, as do the implications of his ideas for such topics as consciousness, knowledge, language and the arts.

Traditionally revered as the literal word of God, the Qur'an serves as Islam's sacred book of revelation.

Für die Autorhandlungen Johann Georg Hamanns sind Ort und Sprache von zentraler Bedeutung.

In popular and academic literature, jihad is predominantly assumed to refer exclusively to armed combat, and martyrdom in the Islamic context is understood to be invariably of the military kind.

This edited collection covers Friedrich Waismann's most influential contributions to twentieth-century philosophy of language: his concepts of open texture and language strata, his early criticism of verificationism and the analytic-synthetic distinction, as well as their significance for experimental and legal philosophy.

Are there nonexistent objects?

Sortal concepts are at the center of certain logical discussions and have played a significant role in solutions to particular problems in philosophy.

The Hum of the World is an invitation to contemplate what would happen if we heard the world as attentively as we see it.

Richard Martin's thoroughly philosophical as well as thoroughly tech- nical investigations deserve continued and appreciative study.

Called by many France's foremost philosopher, Gilles Deleuze is one of the leading thinkers in the Western World.

Since the revolution in philosophic method that began about a century ago, the focus of philosophic attention has been on language as used both in daily conversation and in specialized institutional activities such as science, law, and the arts.

This popular introduction by a well-known Islamic scholar has been updated and expanded, offering a balanced portrayal of the Qur an and its place in historic and contemporary Muslim society.

This volume, a sequel to Form Miming Meaning (1999), offers a selection of papers given at the second international symposium on iconicity (Amsterdam 1999).

This book examines an undertheorized topic in the study of religion and sacred texts: the figure of the neighbor.

Offers a comprehensive and accessible exploration of the scope and importance of Gottlob Frege''s work.

This book aims to develop a philosophical theory of extrinsic properties - of properties whose instantiation by an object does not only depend on what the object itself is like, but also on features of its environment.

Knowledge and Presuppositions develops a novel account of epistemic contextualism based on the idea that pragmatic presuppositions play a central role in the semantics of knowledge attributions.

This edited collection covers Friedrich Waismann's most influential contributions to twentieth-century philosophy of language: his concepts of open texture and language strata, his early criticism of verificationism and the analytic-synthetic distinction, as well as their significance for experimental and legal philosophy.

Now in paperback, Sandra Laugier's reconsideration of analytic philosophy and ordinary language.

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

This book defends a version of linguistic idealism, the thesis that the world is a product of language.

In der modernen Rhetorikforschung, die sich vor allem auf die Redetechnik konzentriert, gehört das Rednerideal nach wie vor zu den am wenigsten untersuchten Themen.

Im Mittelpunkt jeder philosophischen Auseinandersetzung mit Sprache steht der Begriff der Repräsentation.

Cognitive Systems and the Extended Mind surveys philosophical issues raised by the situated movement in cognitive science, that is, the treatment of cognitive phenomena as the joint products of brain, body, and environment.

"Siehe, Ein Volk ist es und Eine Sprache haben Alle, und das ist der Anfang ihres Tuns, und nun möchte ihnen nichts unzugänglich sein, von allem was sie gesonnen sind zu tun.

Metaphors of Multilingualism explores changing attitudes towards multilingualism by focusing on shifts both in the choice and in the use of metaphors.

Our understanding of CS Peirce, and his semiotics, is largely influenced by a twentieth century perspective that prioritizes the sign as a cultural artifact, or as one that that 'distorts', in some way, our understanding of the empirical world.