Philosophical Perspectives On Language

Author : Robert J. Stainton
Publisher : Broadview Press
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1996-03-18
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781770484771

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Philosophical Perspectives on Language by Robert J. Stainton Pdf

Philosophical theorizing about language now involves an increasing emphasis on empirical work and a renewed convergence with philosophy of mind, formal semantics and logic. This new text reflects this evolution. Philosophical Perspectives on Language is distinguished in several important respects from other introductions to the topic. Rather than looking at philosophy of language as a collection of (at best) loosely related topics—speech acts, demonstratives, sense and reference, truth and meaning, etc.—this book is organized around a unifying theme: language as a system of symbols that is known and used.

Author : Ufuk Özen Baykent
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 115 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2016-08-17
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781443898201

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An Introductory Course to Philosophy of Language by Ufuk Özen Baykent Pdf

Language is what we all share and is our common concern. What is the nature of language? How is language related to the world? How is communication possible via language? What is the impact of language on our reasoning and thinking? Many people are unaware that misunderstandings and conflicts during communication occur as a result of the way we use language. This book introduces the central issues in the history of philosophical investigations about the concept of language. Topics are structured with reference to the world’s foremost philosophers of language. The book will encourage the reader to explore the depths of the concept of language and will raise an awareness of this distinctive human capacity.

Author : Robert J. Stainton
Publisher : Broadview Press
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2000-06-09
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1551112531

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Perspectives in the Philosophy of Language by Robert J. Stainton Pdf

This concise and affordable anthology is designed for use as a textbook in both undergraduate and graduate courses in philosophy of language. It aims to provide a core of essential primary sources and may be used either on its own, or in conjunction with a secondary source.

Author : Ryan M. Nefdt,Carita Klippi,Bart Karstens
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2021-03-30
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783030554385

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The Philosophy and Science of Language by Ryan M. Nefdt,Carita Klippi,Bart Karstens Pdf

This volume brings together a diverse range of scholars to address important philosophical and interdisciplinary questions in the study of language. Linguistics throughout history has been a conduit to the study of the mind, brain, societal structure, literature and history itself. The epistemic and methodological transfer between the sciences and humanities in regards to linguistics has often been documented, but the underlying philosophical issues have not always been adequately addressed. With 15 original and interdisciplinary chapters, this volume therefore tackles vital questions relating to the philosophy, history, and theoretical interplay between the study of language and fields as varied as logic, physics, biology, classical philology and neuroscience. With a four part structure, questions of the mathematical foundations of linguistics, links to the natural sciences, cognitive implications and historical connections, take centre stage throughout the volume. The final chapters present research related to the linguistic connections between history, philosophy and the humanities more broadly. Advancing new avenues of research, this volume is exemplary in its treatment of diachronic and cross-disciplinary interaction, and will be of interest to all scholars interested in the study of language.

Author : Marina Sbisà,Jan-Ola Östman,Jef Verschueren
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027207876

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Philosophical Perspectives for Pragmatics by Marina Sbisà,Jan-Ola Östman,Jef Verschueren Pdf

The ten volumes of "Handbook of Pragmatics Highlights" focus on the most salient topics in the field of pragmatics, thus dividing its wide interdisciplinary spectrum in a transparent and manageable way. While the other volumes select specific cognitive, grammatical, social, cultural, variational, interactional, or discursive angles, this 10th volume focuses on the interface between pragmatics and philosophy and reviews the philosophical background from which pragmatics has taken inspiration and with which it is constantly confronted. It provides the reader with information about authors relevant to the development of pragmatics, trends or areas in philosophy that are relevant for the definition of the main concepts in pragmatics or the characterization of its cultural context, the neighbouring field of semantics (with particular respect to truth-conditional semantics and some main branches of formal semantics), and recent philosophical debates that involve pragmatic notions such as indexicality and context. While most of the references are to the analytic philosophical field, also perspectives in so-called continental philosophy are taken into account. The introductory chapter outlines some unifying routes of reflection as regards meaning, speech as action, and self and mind, and suggests some connections between doing pragmatics and doing philosophy.

Author : Robert J. Stainton
Publisher : Broadview Press
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1996-03-18
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781460401576

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Philosophical Perspectives on Language by Robert J. Stainton Pdf

Philosophical theorizing about language now involves an increasing emphasis on empirical work and a renewed convergence with philosophy of mind, formal semantics and logic. This new text reflects this evolution. Philosophical Perspectives on Language is distinguished in several important respects from other introductions to the topic. Rather than looking at philosophy of language as a collection of (at best) loosely related topics—speech acts, demonstratives, sense and reference, truth and meaning, etc.—this book is organized around a unifying theme: language as a system of symbols that is known and used.

Author : John Hawthorne,Dean W. Zimmerman
Publisher : Wiley-Blackwell
Page : 536 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2003-12-19
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1405116730

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Philosophical Perspectives, Language and Philosophical Linguistics by John Hawthorne,Dean W. Zimmerman Pdf

Philosophical Perspectives Volume 17, Language and Philosophical Linguistics, contains over 20 articles from leading philosophers of language and linguists.

Author : Piotr Stalmaszczyk
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 831 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2021-12-02
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781108492386

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The Cambridge Handbook of the Philosophy of Language by Piotr Stalmaszczyk Pdf

A comprehensive guide to contemporary investigations into the relationship between language, philosophy, and linguistics.

Author : Peter A. French,Theodore Edward Uehling,Howard K. Wettstein
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 442 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : UOM:39015016898408

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Contemporary Perspectives in the Philosophy of Language II by Peter A. French,Theodore Edward Uehling,Howard K. Wettstein Pdf

The philosophy of language has emerged in the 20th century as a fundamental area of philosophic inquiry. It is unquestionably central to research in many other areas, and some have even suggested that it should now be seen as the foundation of philosophy.

Author : William Frawley
Publisher : Newark : University of Delaware Press ; London : Associated University Presses
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : UOM:39015005709715

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Translation by William Frawley Pdf

Author : Ruth M. Kempson,Tim Fernando,Nicholas Asher
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 596 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2012-04-20
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9780444517470

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Philosophy of Linguistics by Ruth M. Kempson,Tim Fernando,Nicholas Asher Pdf

'Philosophy of linguistics' investigates the foundational concepts and methods of linguistics, the scientific study of human language. It brings together philosophers, scientists and historians to map out both the basic assumptions set during the second half of the last century and the unfolding shifts in perspective in which more functionalist perspectives are explored.

Author : Alessandro Capone,Francesca Poggi
Publisher : Springer
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2016-05-02
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783319303857

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Pragmatics and Law by Alessandro Capone,Francesca Poggi Pdf

This volume highlights important aspects of the complex relationship between common language and legal practice. It hosts an interdisciplinary discussion between cognitive science, philosophy of language and philosophy of law, in which an international group of authors aims to promote, enrich and refine this new debate. Philosophers of law have always shown a keen interest in cognitive science and philosophy of language in order to find tools to solve their problems: recently this interest was reciprocated and scholars from cognitive science and philosophy of language now look to the law as a testing ground for their theses. Using the most sophisticated tools available to pragmatics, sociolinguistics, cognitive sciences and legal theory, an interdisciplinary, international group of authors address questions like: Does legal interpretation differ from ordinary understanding? Is the common pragmatic apparatus appropriate to legal practice? What can pragmatics teach about the concept of law and pervasive legal phenomena such as testimony or legal disagreements?

Author : Keith Green
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2007-11-29
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781441180339

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Bertrand Russell, Language and Linguistic Theory by Keith Green Pdf

Although there has been a significant revival in interest in Bertrand Russell's work in recent years, most professional philosophers would still argue that Russell was not interested in language. Here, in the first full-length study of Russell's work on language throughout his long career, Keith Green shows that this is in fact not the case. In examining Russell's work, particularly from 1900 to 1950, Green exposes a repeated emphasis on, and turn to, linguistic considerations. Green considers how 'linguistics' and 'philosophy' were struggling in the twentieth century to define themselves and to create appropriate contemporary disciplines. They had much in common during certain periods, yet seemed to continue in almost total ignorance of one another. This negative relation has been noted in the past by Roy Harris, whose work provides some of the inspiration for the present book. Taking those two aspects, Green's aim here is to provide the first full-length consideration of Russell's varied work in language, and to read it in the context of developing contemporary (i.e. with Russell's work) linguistic theory. The main aims of this important new book, in focusing exclusively on Russell's work on language throughout his career, are to place Russell within the changing contexts of contemporary linguistic thought; to read Russell's language-theories against the grain of his own linguistic practice; to assess the relationship between linguistic and philosophical thought during Russell's career, and to reassess his place in the history of linguistic thought in the twentieth century. As such, this fascinating study will make a vital contribution to Russell studies and to the study of the relationship between philosophy and linguistics.

Author : Scott Soames
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2012-09-24
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780691155975

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Philosophy of Language by Scott Soames Pdf

A masterful overview of the philosophy of language from one of its most important thinkers In this book one of the world's foremost philosophers of language presents his unifying vision of the field—its principal achievements, its most pressing current questions, and its most promising future directions. In addition to explaining the progress philosophers have made toward creating a theoretical framework for the study of language, Scott Soames investigates foundational concepts—such as truth, reference, and meaning—that are central to the philosophy of language and important to philosophy as a whole. The first part of the book describes how philosophers from Frege, Russell, Tarski, and Carnap to Kripke, Kaplan, and Montague developed precise techniques for understanding the languages of logic and mathematics, and how these techniques have been refined and extended to the study of natural human languages. The book then builds on this account, exploring new thinking about propositions, possibility, and the relationship between meaning, assertion, and other aspects of language use. An invaluable overview of the philosophy of language by one of its most important practitioners, this book will be essential reading for all serious students of philosophy.

Author : Savas L. Tsohatzidis
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2007-10-18
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0521685346

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John Searle's Philosophy of Language by Savas L. Tsohatzidis Pdf

This is a volume of original essays on key aspects of John Searle's philosophy of language. It examines Searle's work in relation to current issues of central significance, including internalism versus externalism about mental and linguistic content, truth-conditional versus non-truth-conditional conceptions of content, the relative priorities of thought and language in the explanation of intentionality, the status of the distinction between force and sense in the theory of meaning, the issue of meaning scepticism in relation to rule-following, and the proper characterization of 'what is said' in relation to the semantics/pragmatics distinction. Written by a distinguished team of contemporary philosophers, and prefaced by an illuminating essay by Searle, the volume aims to contribute to a deeper understanding of Searle's work in philosophy of language, and to suggest innovative approaches to fundamental questions in that area.