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

By William G. Lycan

Book information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
2008
ISBN
0203930002, 9780203930007, 0415957516, 9780415957519, 0415957524, 9780415957526
LCC
P106 .L886 2008
Open Library ID
OL18586370M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (1738236 bytes)
Series
Routledge Contemporary Introductions to Philosophy
Pages
235\235
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

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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