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Philosophy of language : a contemporary introduction / William G. Lycan

By: Resource type: Ressourcentyp: BuchBookLanguage: English Series: Routledge contemporary introductions to philosophyPublisher: New York ; London : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2019Edition: Third editionDescription: xiii, 238 SeitenISBN:
  • 9781138504578
  • 9781138504585
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: 9781315146119 | 9781315146119. | Erscheint auch als: Philosophy of language. Online-Ausgabe New York : Routledge, [2018] | Erscheint auch als: Philosophy of language. Online-Ausgabe Third edition. New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2019. 1 Online-Ressource (xiii, 238 Seiten)DDC classification:
  • 401 23
RVK: RVK: ER 600LOC classification:
  • P106
Summary: "Now in its Third Edition, Philosophy of Language: A Contemporary Introduction introduces students to the main issues and theories in twentieth-century philosophy of language, focusing specifically on linguistic phenomena. Author William G. Lycan structures the book into four general parts. Part I, Reference and Referring, includes topics such as Russell's theory of descriptions (and its objections), 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 and includes a detailed discussion of the problem of indirect force. Part IV, The Expressive and the Figurative, examines various forms of expressive language and what "metaphorical meaning" is and how most listeners readily grasp it."--Call number: Grundsignatur: 2019 A 299PPN: PPN: 1027216420
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Freihandbestand ausleihbar Bibliothek Campus Süd lit 3.11 Lesesaal Geisteswissenschaften (LSG) 2019 A 299 Available 53461146090
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