Grammar of Meaning - Normativity and Semantic Discourse

Klappentext This study addresses a range of central topics in Anglo-American philosophy of language. Zusammenfassung This study investigates the question of the nature of the normative! as well as a range of topics specific to the philosophy of language! including the nature of the analytic-synthetic distinction! naturalism about meaning! realist and irrealist approaches to meaning! and the nature of translation. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; 1. The ends and means of translation: critical reflections on Quine's indeterminacy of translation thesis; 2. Synonymy, analyticity and a priori authority; 3. Where do we go from here? A pragmatist account of normative judgement; 4. The epistemology of meaning and the analysis of meaning; 5. Robust meaning theories and canonical dispositionalism; 6. Reduction and naturalism; 7. Realism and factuality.

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• Authors: &apos, Mark Norris Lance, Mark Norris (Georgetown University Lance, Mark Norris O&apos Lance, Mark Norris O''leary-Hawthorne Lance, Lance Mark Norris, John leary-Hawthorne, John O'Leary-Hawthorne, O'Leary-Hawthorne John
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.07.2008
• EAN: 9780521070300
• ISBN: 978-0-521-07030-0
• No. of pages: 468
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Philosoph; Cambridge Studies in Philosophy
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; Philosophy of Language, PHILOSOPHY / Social, PHILOSOPHY / Political, PHILOSOPHY / Language, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Semantics, Social & political philosophy, social and political philosophy, Semantics, discourse analysis, stylistics, Semantics, discourse analysis, etc