From Logic to Rhetoric : Translated from the French original edition, Paris, 1982.

What is language, and how has it been conceived since Frege? How did the development of thought about language lead to a renewed interest in rhetoric in the twentieth century and ultimately to the 'problematological synthesis'? These are the main questions treated in this book. A constant...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Meyer, Michel
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam/Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co., 1986.
Temas:
Language and logic.
Semiotics.
Rhetoric.
Question (Logic)
Langage et logique.
Rhétorique.
Interrogation (Logique)
rhetoric (discipline)
Language and logic
Rhetoric
Semiotics
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • FROM LOGIC TO RHETORIC; Editorial page; Title page; Copyright page; Dedication; Table of contents; INTRODUCTION; PART ONE: LANGUAGE AND LOGIC; 1. FREGE OR THE RECOURSE TO FORMALIZATION; 1.1. Logic before Frege; 1.2. Function and concept; 1.3. The ideography and the principles of Fregean language theory; 1.4. Sense and reference; 1.5. Sense and meaning; 1.6. Conclusion; 2. RUSSELL'S SYNTHESIS; 2.1. Formalization and natural language; 2.2. Definite descriptions; 2.3. Propositional functions; 2.3.1. The ambiguity of the concept o f propositional function; 2.3.2. The ambiguity in quantification.
  • 2.4. The theory of types and the axiom of reducibility2.5. Conclusion; 3. WITTGENSTEIN: FROM TRUTH TABLES TO ORDINARY LANGUAGE AND THE IMPLICATIONS OF GENERALIZED ANALYTICITY; 3.1. The Russellian heritage and its contradictions; 3.2. The immanence of logic in language; 3.3. Sense and reference; 3.4. The picture theory of language; 3.5. Negation and the other logical constants; 3.6. The Tractatus as initiation into silence; 3.7. Ordinary language and its rules; 3.8. Conclusion: Russell vs. Wittgenstein, a heritage; 4. HINTIKKA OR THE THEORY OF POSSIBLE WORLDS; 4.1. Introduction.
  • 4.2. Referential opacity4.3. The ontological commitment and the elimination of singular terms with Quine; 4.4. Possible worlds and propositional attitudes; 4.5. The implications of the alternativeness relation and the theory of models; 4.6. Ontological commitment; 4.7. The interpretation of quantification as a question and answer game; a) Names and descriptions; b) Natural language and interrogatives; c) Interrogatives and quantification; d) The rules of the game; e) Remarks; 4.8. Wittgenstein and Hintikka: A concluding comparison; PART TWO: LANGUAGE AND CONTEXT.
  • 5. SYNTAX, SEMANTICS, PRAGMATICS AND ARGUMENTATION5.1. The three levels of language; 5.2. Logical syntax; 5.3. Formalization and natural language; 5.4. The renewal of argumentation; 5.5. Perelman's new rhetoric; 5.6. Argumentation in language or the 'new linguistics' of Anscombre and Ducrot; 5.7. Conclusion; 6. DIALECTIC AND QUESTIONING; 6.1. Dialectic Socrates; 6.2. The Middle Dialogues: Dialectic and the hypothetical method; 6.3. The Late Period: The question of being or the shift from the question to being; 7. ARGUMENTATION IN THE LIGHT OF A THEORY OF QUESTIONING; 7.1. Why language?
  • 7.2. The two major categories of forms7.3. What is to be understood by 'question' and 'problem'?; 7.4. The autonomization of the spoken and the written; 7.5. The proposition as proposition of an answer; 7.6. What is meaning?; 7.7. Meaning as the locus of dialectic; 7.8. Argumentation; 7.9. Literal and figurative meaning: The origin of messages "between the lines"; FOOTNOTES; REFERENCES.

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