Word and World - Practice and the Foundations of Language

Klappentext Proposing a new account of the nature of language, founded upon an original interpretation of Wittgenstein, Patricia Hanna and Bernard Harrison deny the existence of a direct referential relationship between words and things. Their provocative re-examination of the interrelations of language and social practice will interest not only philosophers of language but also linguists, psycholinguists, and students of communication. Zusammenfassung This important book proposes a new account of the nature of language! founded upon an original interpretation of Wittgenstein. This book will interest not only philosophers of language but also linguists! psycholinguists! students of communication and all those concerned with the nature and acquisition of human linguistic capacities. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; Part I. Scepticism and Language: 1. The prison-house of language; 2. Referential realism; 3. Out of the prison-house; Part II. Names and Their Bearers: 4. Russell's principle and Wittgenstein's slogan; 5. The name-tracking network; 6. Rigidity; 7. Description and causes; 8. Knowledge of rules; Part III. Propositions: 9. Meaning and truth; 10. Truth and use; 11. Unnatural kinds; 12. Necessity and 'grammar'; Part IV. Paradoxes of Interpretation: 13. Indeterminacy of translation; 14. Linguistic competence; 15. Paradox and substitutivity; Epilogue.

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• Authors: Patricia Hanna, Patricia (University of Utah) Hanna, Patricia (University of Utah) Harrison Hanna, Patricia Harrison Hanna, Bernard Harrison, Bernard (University of Utah) Harrison
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.12.2003
• EAN: 9780521822879
• ISBN: 978-0-521-82287-9
• No. of pages: 432
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Other languages / Other literatures; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works