Philosophy of language

Mark Jago presents and defends a novel theory of what truth is, in terms of the metaphysical notion of truthmaking.

Xing Lu examines language, art, persuasion, and argumentation in ancient China and offers a detailed and authentic account of ancient Chinese rhetorical theories and practices within the society's philosophical, political, cultural, and linguistic contexts.

Through a series of reflections from internationally renowned performance-makers and contextualising essays from leading theatre and performance scholars, this is the first book to map the influence of Roland Barthes on performance.

The Qur'an between the Ottoman Empire and the Turkish Republic is one of the few book-length studies on an Ottoman Qur'an commentary.

The volume provides a thorough look into Marina Sbisa's distinctive, Austinian-inspired approach to speech acts.

Andrew Bowie uses music to question many ideas about language, meaning and philosophy.

Ritual and practice are one of the most distinctive features of religion, and they are linked with its central beliefs.

Can language directly access what is true, or is the truth judgment affected by the subjective, perhaps even solipsistic, constructs of reality built by the speakers of that language?

First published in 1990, this book argues that any theory of language constructs its 'object' by separating 'relevant' from 'irrelevant' phenomena - excluding the latter.

We usually think about language and pain as opposites, the one being about expression and connection, the other destructive, "e;beyond words"e; so to speak, and isolating.

This book covers the topic of history and the role that it played in the Austrio-British philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein's thought.

Charles Sanders Peirce (1839-1914) is generally regarded as the founder of pragmatism, and one of the greatest ever American philosophers.

Stephen Mulhall presents a detailed critical commentary on sections 243-315 of Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations: the famous remarks on 'private language'.

According to noncognitivists, when we say that stealing is wrong, what we are doing is more like venting our feelings about stealing or encouraging one another not to steal, than like stating facts about morality.

In this original study, Rachel Coventry expands Heidegger's philosophy of art to include his ontological account of poetry and technology.

Truth is in trouble.

Law is traditionally conceived as consisting of norms of conduct and power-conferring norms.

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

Individual objects have potentials: paper has the potential to burn, an acorn has the potential to turn into a tree, some people have the potential to run a mile in less than four minutes.

This book explains exactly what human knowledge is.

This volume features new perspectives on the implications of cross-linguistic and cultural diversity for epistemology.

Meaning Diminished examines the complex relationship between semantic analysis and metaphysical inquiry.

This book offers a defense against non-classical approaches to the paradoxes.

This book is concerned with the evaluation of natural argumentative discourse, and, in particular, with the language in which arguments are expressed.

Isn't That Clever provides a new account of the nature of humor - the cleverness account - according to which humor is intentional conspicuous acts of playful cleverness.

Analyticity, or the 'analytic/synthetic' distinction is one of the most important and controversial problems in contemporary philosophy.

Words are the foundation, the building blocks of language.

This comparative study examines how scriptures - the Bible and the Qur''an - were interpreted in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam throughout history.

Argues for the central role of thoughts in the design of language.

Mixed Languages are speech varieties that arise in bilingual settings, often as markers of ethnic separateness.

Eckard Rolf zeigt in diesem Buch in welchen Theoriekontexten der Symbolbegriff in Anspruch genommen wird.

This book offers new insights into the nature of human rational capacities by engaging inferentialism with empirical research in the cognitive sciences.

Analytic philosophy has been a dominant intellectual movement in the 20th century and a reflection of the cultural pre-eminence of scientism.

This book presents the current state of experimental philosophy of language, drawing attention to corpus methods.

First published in 1992, this book represents the first major attempt to compile a bibliography of Derrida's work and scholarship about his work.

This collection features eleven original essays, divided into three thematic sections, which explore the work of Wilfrid Sellars in relation to other twentieth-century thinkers.

What is buried in the crypts of the Gothic?

Written by a leading expert, this is the ideal guide to the only book Wittgenstein published during his lifetime, the Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus.

What kind of knowledge could be obtainable just by thinking?

How does human language work?

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