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The Grammar of Meaning: Normativity and Semantic Discourse

By Mark Norris Lance , John O’Leary-Hawthorne

Book information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
2008
ISBN
0521070309, 9780521070300
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
21 MB (22031778 bytes)
Series
Cambridge Studies in Philosophy
Edition
1
Pages
468\465
Time added
2018-06-13 08:19:30
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What is the function of concepts pertaining to meaning in sociolinguistic practice? In this study, the authors argue that we can approach a satisfactory answer by displacing the standard picture of meaning talk as a sort of description with picture that takes seriously the similarity between meaning talk and various types of normative injunction. In their discussion of this approach, they investigate the more general question of the nature of the normative, as well as a range of important topics specific to the philosophy of language, including the work of Quine, Sellars and Wittgenstein.

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