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Language Turned on Itself: The Semantics and Pragmatics of Metalinguistic Discourse

Language Turned on Itself: The Semantics and Pragmatics of Metalinguistic Discourse

Cappelen, Herman
Lepore, Ernest

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PhilosophyLinguistics

ISBN10: 0199231192
ISBN13: 9780199231195
Publisher: Oxford University Press (UK)
Published: Nov 24 2007
Pages: 182
Weight: 0.75
Height: 0.80 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.60
Language: English
Language Turned on Itself examines what happens when language becomes self-reflexive; when language is used to talk about language. Those who think, talk, and write about language are habitual users of various metalinguistic devices, but reliance on these devices begins early: kids are told, 'That's called a rabbit'. It's not implausible that a primitive capacity for the meta-linguistic kicks in at the beginning stages of language acquisition. But no matter when or how frequently these devices are invoked, one thing is clear: they present theorists of language with a complex data pattern. Herman Cappelen and Ernest Lepore show that the study of these devices and patterns not only represents an interesting and neglected project in the philosophy of language, but also carries important consequences for other parts of philosophy.

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