Philosophy of Language: A Contemporary Introduction (Routledge Contemporary Introductions to Philosophy) - Softcover

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Lycan, William G.

 
9780415171168: Philosophy of Language: A Contemporary Introduction (Routledge Contemporary Introductions to Philosophy)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0415171164 ISBN 13: 9780415171168
Verlag: Routledge, 2000

Inhaltsangabe

Philosophy of Language introduces the student to the main issues and theories in twentieth-century philosophy of language. Topics are structured in three parts in the book. Part I, Reference and Referring Expressions, includes topics such as Russell's Theory of Desciptions, 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, includes a detailed discussion of the problem of indirect force and surveys approaches to metaphor.
Unique features of the text:
* chapter overviews and summaries
* clear supportive examples
* study questions
* annotated further reading
* glossary.

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William G.Lycan is a leading philosopher of language and mind. He is William Rand Kenan, Jr. Professor at the University of North Carolina. His published works include over 100 articles as well as six books, among them Logical Form in Natural Language (1984), Consciousness (1987), Judgement and Justification (1988), Modality and Meaning (1994), and Consciousness and Experience (1998).

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Verlag
Routledge
Erscheinungsdatum
2000
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0415171164
ISBN 13 
9780415171168
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243
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