Philosophy of language

The Hungarian Nominal Functional Sequence combines the methods of syntactic cartography with evidence from compositional semantics in a comprehensive exploration of the structure of Noun Phrases.

This volume explores the compositional semantics of clausal complementation, and proposes a theory in which clause-embedding predicates are uniformly "e;question-oriented"e;, i.

Sprache und Schmerz werden üblicherweise als Gegensätze gedacht: Auf der einen Seite die Sprache, die sich mit Ausdruck und Kommunikation befasst und Beziehungen herstellt, während der Schmerz auf der anderen Seite gerade nicht mit Worten auszudrücken, zerstörerisch und isolierend ist.

What is 'translation'?

Wilfrid Sellars and Donald Davidson were two of the most influential American philosophers of the 20th century.

The linguistic turn in critical theory has been routinely justified with the claim that Adorno's philosophy is trapped within the limits of consciousness philosophy.

This book examines Hegel within his broader historical and philosophical contexts and introduces his highly varied and influential works.

Meaning addresses the fundamental question of human language interaction: what it is to mean, and how we communicate our meanings to others.

Peter Ludlow shows how word meanings are much more dynamic than we might have supposed, and explores how meanings are modulated (changed) even during the course of our everyday conversations.

First published in 1973, this is the first book on Paul Tillich in which a sustained attempt is made to sort out and evaluate the questions to which Tillich addresses himself in the crucial philosophical parts of his theological system.

The book takes as its point of departure the notion that similarity and contiguity are fundamental to meaning.

Andinmy haste, I said: "e;Allmenare Liars"e; 1 -Psalms 116:11 The Original Lie Philosophical analysis often reveals and seldom solves paradoxes.

With an ever-growing body of evidence on the links between different oppressions, never have the debates in Critical Animal Studies surrounding intersectionality in relation to animal ethics been more important.

This book deals with various aspects of metaphorics and yet it is not only, or perhaps not even primarily, about metaphor itself.

First published in 1952, professor Strawson's highly influential Introduction to Logical Theory provides a detailed examination of the relationship between the behaviour of words in common language and the behaviour of symbols in a logical system.

First published in 1987, this book is an attempt to re-establish semiotic on the basis of principles consistent with its past history, rather than the 'cultural semiotics' of the European tradition, and especially with the guiding ideas of Peirce and Morris.

It must be acknowledged that the essays presented here do not constitute a systematic account of any sort but represent occasional forays.

What do opening dialogues, sonnets and the interaction style of the most diverse cultural and social groups share in common?

It is a fundamental feature of language that words refer to things.

The volume is dedicated to the German linguist Wolfgang Ullrich "e;Gustav"e; Wurzel (1940-2001), who has influenced linguistic thought in his work on paradigm-based morphology.

This book investigates dispositions in grammatical-normative terms through a contrast between a naturalized paradigm and a Wittgenstein-inspired perspective.

In this book, Angelika Neuwirth provides a new approach to understanding the founding text of Islam.

Despite philosophers' growing interest in the relation between philosophy and literature in general, over the last few decades comparatively few studies have been published dealing more narrowly with the literary aspects of philosophical texts.

This book offers a comprehensive primer for the study of intensionality.

Wörter machen Leute – und unsere Welt.

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

This book proposes a novel theory of truth and falsity.

This book examines in detail the concept of "e;abrogation"e; in the Qur'an, which has played a major role in the development of Islamic law and has implications for understanding the history and integrity of the Qur'anic text.

In this outstanding book leading scholars from around the world examine the history of linguistics from ancient origins to the present.

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

Representational systems such as language, mind and perhaps even the brain exhibit a structure that is often assumed to be compositional.

Islam and its Past: Jahiliyya, Late Antiquity, and the Qur'an brings together scholars from various disciplines and fields to consider Islamic revelation, with particular focus on the Qur'an.

Not everything that can be said in one language can be said in another.

This volume represents the first attempt in the field of language pedagogy to apply a systems approach to issues in English language education.

The editors of the Applied Logic Series are happy to present to the reader the fifth volume in the series, a collection of papers on Logic, Language and Computation.

Philosophical Papers will interest a very wide range of philosophers and students of the human sciences.

Providing a framework of Islamic thought for issues raised in modern times, this cornerstone volume offers important insight into matters of belief through a collection of arguments that assert the importance of a renewed faith in today?

The world is swimming in misinformation.

Between Saying and Doing aims to reconcile pragmatism (in both its classical American and its Wittgensteinian forms) with analytic philosophy.

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

The second Jerusalem Philosophical Encounter was held in Jerusalem on April 25-28, 1976.

One of the greatest philosophical works of all time, in a new translation for the twenty-first century'The final philosopher to perform the most profound surgery on philosophy .