Philosophy of language

This collection of nine original articles deals with the expression of possession at various levels of grammar, morphological, phrasal, and syntactic, and from a typologically diverse range of languages (including Germanic, Oceanic, Meso-American, and Australian Aboriginal).

In this volume we witness Wittgenstein in the act of composing and experimenting with his new visions in philosophy.

This book challenges the dominant scholarly notion that the Qur'an must be interpreted through the medieval commentaries shaped by the biography of the prophet Muhammad, arguing instead that the text is best read in light of Christian and Jewish scripture.

This book presents a philosophical interpretation to numerical cognition based on dual process theories and heuristics.

What does talk of meaning mean?

This book presents a collection of interrelated essays that analyze the theoretical foundations of semiotic-cultural constructivism in psychology written by one of the pioneers in this field of research: Dr.

What is 'translation'?

It is tempting to think that, if a person's beliefs are coherent, they are also likely to be true.

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

The semantics for modal interpretation yields two types of belief ascriptions, elucidating various semantic phenomena and fluent aphasia.

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.

In diesem Buch geht es um die grundlegende Frage, wie Sprachverstehen und Situationsverstehen zusammenwirken.

This book provides a comprehensive survey of Qur'an translation in Indonesia - the most populous Muslim-majority country in the world with a highly diverse, multilingual society.

In recent years, the idea of a concept has become increasingly central to different areas of philosophy.

This volume offers the reader a unique possibility to obtain a concise introduction to dependency linguistics and to learn about the current state of the art in the field.

This book, suitably titled 'The Kingdom of God' delves into the profound meanings and guidance found in Surah al-Mulk, the 67th chapter of the Qur'an.

Twitter allows us to build communities, track celebrities, raise our social profile, and promote a personal brand.

This book addresses a wide range of aspects of the study of language in a variety of domains such as cognition, change, acquisition, structure, philosophy, politics, and education.

This book offers a comprehensive reinterpretation of J.

Al-Adab al-Mufrad, an anthology of 1329 hadiths, is a treasured work in Muslim history by one of its most respected scholars, Imam Bukhari.

This book rethinks Plato's creation and use of myth by drawing on theories and methods from myth studies, religious studies, literary theory and related fields.

The plot thickens--in novels and our lives--forcing us from the fairy tale into a bewildering, even heartbreaking narrative.

This volume is the second part of a project which hosts an interdisciplinary discussion about the relationship among law and language, legal practice and ordinary conversation, legal philosophy and the linguistics sciences.

This book gives a state-of-the-art survey of current research in logic and philosophy of science, as viewed by invited speakers selected by the most prestigious international organization in the field.

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

Language Turned on Itself examines what happens when language becomes self-reflexive; when language is used to talk about language.

In this book, Ilhan Inan questions the classical definition of curiosity as a desire to know.

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

The notion of negation is one of the central logical notions.

Incommensurability and Related Matters draws together some of the most distinguished contributors to the critical literature on the problem of the incommensurability of scientific theories.

This book presents an interpretation of Kant's Critique of Pure Reason as a priori psychologism.

This innovative volume investigates the meaning of 'something' in different recent philosophical traditions in order to rethink the logic and the unity of ontology, without forgetting to compare these views to earlier significative accounts in the history of philosophy.

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

How is it that words come to stand for the things they stand for?

In his 'Letter on Humanism' of 1947, Heidegger declared that the subject/object opposition and the terminology that accrues to it had still not been properly addressed in the history of philosophy, and he awaited a proper disquisition that resolved the problem.

Donald Davidson was one of the 20th Century's deepest analytic thinkers.

Eleven original essays discuss a range of puzzling philosophical questions about fictional characters, and more generally about fictional objects.

Ambiguity, vagueness and metaphor are pervasive features of language, deserving of systematic study in their own right.

Fritz Mauthner (1849–1923) bezeichnet "Muttersprache und Vaterland" als einen Versuch, die Grundbegriffe der Nationalitätsidee deutlich zu machen.

At first blush, phenomenology seems to be concerned preeminently with questions of knowledge, truth, and perception, and yet closer inspection reveals that the analyses of these phenomena remain bound up with language and that consequently phenomenology is, inextricably, a philosophy of language.

Philosophy of language is the branch of philosophy that examines the nature of meaning, the relationship of language to reality, and the ways in which we use, learn, and understand language.

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

This is the first comprehensive textbook on higher-order logic that is written specifically to introduce the subject matter to graduate students in philosophy.

Poetics of the Earth is a work of environmental philosophy, based on a synthesis of eastern and western thought on natural and human history.