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Philosophy of Language: A Contemporary Introduction

Philosophy of Language: A Contemporary Introduction

Lycan, William G.

Paperback

Series: Routledge Contemporary Introductions to Philosophy

PhilosophyLinguistics

ISBN10: 1138504580
ISBN13: 9781138504585
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Sep 12 2018
Pages: 238
Weight: 0.92
Height: 0.70 Width: 5.90 Depth: 8.90
Language: English

Now in its third edition, Philosophy of Language: A Contemporary Introduction introduces students to the main issues and theories in twenty-first-century philosophy of language, focusing specifically on linguistic phenomena. Author William G. Lycan structures the book into four general parts. Part I, Reference and Referring, includes topics such as Russell's Theory of Descriptions (and its objections), Donnellan's distinction, problems of anaphora, the Description Theory of proper names, Searle's Cluster Theory, and the Causal-Historical Theory. Part II, Theories of Meaning, surveys the competing theories of linguistic meaning and compares their various advantages and liabilities. Part III, Pragmatics and Speech Acts, introduces the basic concepts of linguistic pragmatics and includes a detailed discussion of the problem of indirect force. Part IV, The Expressive and the Figurative, examines various forms of expressive language and what metaphorical meaning is and how most listeners readily grasp it.

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