Philosophy of language

Wu's book provides an innovative perspective on, and recommendations for, the major aspects of second language (L2) teaching from a Hegelian anthro-philosophical perspective.

This volume discusses some crucial ideas of the founders of the analytic philosophy: Gottlob Frege, Bertrand Russell and Ludwig Wittgenstein, or the 'golden trio'.

Formal Semantics: The Essential Readings is a collection of seminal papers that have shaped the field of formal semantics in linguistics.

This volume focuses on the role language plays at all levels of the argumentation process.

This collection of newly published essays examines our relationship to physical objects that invoke, commemorate, and honor the past.

Japanese philosophy is now a flourishing field with thriving societies, journals, and conferences dedicated to it around the world, made possible by an ever-increasing library of translations, books, and articles.

This volume develops a theory of meaning and a semantics for both mathematical and empirical sentences inspired to Chomsky's internalism, namely to a view of semantics as the study of the relations of language not with external reality but with internal, or mental, reality.

Robert Stalnaker explores the notion of the context in which speech takes place, its role in the interpretation of what is said, and in the explanation of the dynamics of discourse.

Werbung ist heute meist Teil einer breiter angelegten Gesamtstrategie; bei größeren Kampagnen werden gezielt mehrere Medien genutzt.

What is the relationship between ontology and modality - between what there is, and what there could be, must be, or might have been?

Theorists working on metaethics and the nature of normativity typically study goodness, rightness, what ought to be done, and so on.

It seems reasonable to believe that there might have existed things other than those that in fact exist, or have existed.

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.

Innovative young philosophers present new research articles on a variety of contemporary issues including relation between language and thought, normativity of language, prospects for a naturalistic account of language, nature of linguistic understanding, semantics of proper names and expressive terms, a contemporary construal of analytic truth

How do we explain violence?

Philosophy of language explores some of the most abstract yet most fundamental questions in philosophy.

Are natural languages genuinely compositional?

A generic statement is a type of generalization that is made by asserting that a "e;kind"e; has a certain property.

This book examines the seventeenth-century project for a "e;real"e; or "e;universal"e; character: a scientific and objective code.

Originally published in 1988.

This book explores what it means to 'only talk feminist here' in the contemporary neoliberal university.

In this first book-length study of the topic, Robert C.

How do words and images function hermeneutically?

Dieses Buch versteht sich sowohl als einführende wie auch tiefer gehende Gesamtbetrachtung des Phänomens Sprache und ihres Ursprungs, ihrer Entwicklung, ihres Nutzens, ihres Wesens und ihres Funktionierens.

This collection brings together the best contemporary philosophical work in the area of intersection between philosophy of language and the law.

This book investigates the role of inference in argumentation, considering how arguments support standpoints on the basis of different loci.

Qur'anic exegesis has become the battleground of political Islam and theological conflict among various Muslim schools of thought.

Changing socio-political landscapes, the dynamics of ‘glocalisation’, among other factors, are spawning new policy attitudes towards multilingualism, and again putting language planning (LP) on the map – in a manner reminiscent of the 1960s and 1970s.

Sowohl die Alltags- als auch die Wissenschaftssprache sind reich an Dispositionsausdrucken wie loslich"e;, elastisch"e;, zuverlassig"e; und humorvoll"e;.

Does thought depend on language?

The first truly introductory text on Lyotard, this book situates Lyotard's interventions in the postmodern debate in the wider context of his rethinking of the politics of representation.

This book collates selective outputs from the 1st International Conference on Contemporary Islamic Studies, focusing on interdisciplinary research that is relevant and timely.

The Intelligent Mind conceives the psychological reality of thought and language, explaining how intelligence develops from intuition to representation and then to linguistic interaction and thinking.

This book asks how we-as citizens, immigrants, activists, teachers-can counter the abuse of language in our midst.

John B.

This book offers an innovative defense of Wilfrid Sellars's notion of ideal truth.

Originally published in 1985.

This book addresses two related questions that have first arisen in Toulmin's seminal book on the uses of argument.

What kind of knowledge could be obtainable just by thinking?

"e;A [book] rich in detail and analysis, which anyone wanting to understand the language debate in Puerto Rico will find essential.

Language is central to political philosophy, yet until now there has been little in the way of a common framework capable of bridging disciplines that share an interest in language, power, and ethics.