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How to Understand Language: A Philosophical Enquiry

By Bernhard Weiss

Book information

Publisher
McGill-Queen's University Press
Year
2010
ISBN
9780773594654
DOI
10.1515/9780773594654
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
15 MB (15439454 bytes)
Pages
\287
Library
degruyter.com
Time added
2023-09-26 21:54:02

Description

Why are philosophers, as opposed to, say, linguists and psychologists, puzzled by language? How should we attempt to shed philosophical light on the phenomenon of language? How to Understand Language frames a discussion in light of these two questions and begins by thinking about the reasons that language is hard to understand from a philosophical point of view. After finding fault with approaches based on philosophical analysis and on translation, Bernhard Weiss undertakes an extended investigation of the program of constructing a theory of meaning and emphasizes the importance of use as fundamental in semantic theorizing.

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