Meaning, use, and truth : introducing the philosophy of language
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Meaning, use, and truth : introducing the philosophy of language
Ashgate, c2005
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [291]-296) and index
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What is linguistic meaning? What do people precisely do in uttering sentences? What are the principles involved in linguistic interpretation? How is it possible that linguistics signs, such as oral sounds or squiggles on a piece of paper, refer to things in the world? This book presents the attempts by philosophers in the 20th century to understand the workings of language, and address question such as these. Presenting an accessible, balanced introduction to the philosophy of language as it has evolved in analytical philosophy during the 20th century, this textbook offers equal attention to both of the main divisions within the field of philosophical semantics - truth-conditional theory and speech act theory - and shows how these theoretical approaches may be construed as complementary abstractions from a prior, undifferentiated understanding of meaning as defined by use.
Meaning, Use and Truth offers students of philosophy of language, and those in related fields such as logic or linguistics, a comprehensive introduction to the field, and explores why philosophy of language in the 20th century could be viewed as providing the key to the solution of the classical problems of philosophy.
Table of Contents
- Preface
- Introduction
- Some classical theories of meaning
- The phenomenology of language
- The semantics of singular terms
- Predication
- Theories of truth
- Davidson's programme
- Intensional semantics
- Speech acts
- On the borderline between linguistics and philosopy: recent developments in the theory of meaning
- Theory of interpretation
- Two critics: Quine and Dummett
- Wider philosophical perspectives
- References and suggestions for further reading
- Bibliography
- Index.
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