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Language : key concepts in philosophy /
Inquiry into the nature and purpose of language has long been a central concern of Western philosophy, within both the analytic, Anglo-American tradition, and its Continental counterpart. Language: Key Concepts in Philosophy explains and explores the principal ideas, theories and debates in the phil...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London :
Continuum,
©2005.
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| Colección: | Key concepts in philosophy.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 1 Communication and Speech Acts; 1.1 The communicative functions of language; 1.2 Communication and performance; 1.3 Knotty performances: locutionary contents, illocutionary forces and perlocutionary effects; 2 Meaning, Sense and Interpretation; 2.1 Two traditions in Philosophy of Language; 2.2 From Frege to Donnellan: reference, names and descriptions; 2.3 Interpretation and translation: neo-empiricist and hermeneutic approaches to linguistic understanding; 3 Indeterminacy and Language Learning: Communication as the Meeting of Minds; 3.1 Meaning scepticism.
- 3.2 Two philosophical models of language learning3.3 Enculturation and shared intentionality; 3.4 Conversation analysis; 4 Linguistic Creativity and Relativism; 4.1 Linguistic creativity and the sociology of language; 4.2 Metaphor; 4.3 Linguistic relativism; 5 Speakers, Linguistic Communities and Histories of Use; 5.1 Idiosyncrasies and conventions; 5.2 Communities, deconstruction and histories of use; 6 Language and Identity; 6.1 Interpellation and censorship; 6.2 Tongues untied; Notes; References; Further Suggested Reading; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T.