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Truth, Force, and Knowledge in Language: Essays on Semantic and Pragmatic Topics

By Savas L. Tsohatzidis

Book information

Publisher
De Gruyter Mouton
Year
2020
ISBN
9783110687538, 9783110687507
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
2 MB (1682259 bytes)
Series
Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM]; 344
Pages
355\0
Time added
2023-05-24 08:01:04

Description

This book collects twenty-five of the author's essays, each of which addresses a descriptive or a foundational issue that arises at the interface between linguistic semantics and pragmatics, on the one hand, and the philosophy of language, on the other. Arranged into three interconnected parts (I. Matters of Meaning and Truth; II. Matters of Meaning and Force; III. Knowledge Matters), the essays suggest that some key topics in the above-mentioned fields have often been approached in ways that considerably underestimate their empirical or conceptual complexity, and attempt to delineate perspectives from which, and conditions under which, an improved understanding of those topics could be sought. The book will be of interest to linguists working in semantics and pragmatics, and to philosophers working in the philosophy of language and in epistemology.

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