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Philosophy of language : a contemporary introduction /
Philosophy of Language introduces the student to the main issues and theories in twentieth-century philosophy of language. Topics are structured in three parts in the book. Part I, Reference and Referring Expressions, includes topics such as Russell's Theory of Desciptions, Donnellan's dis...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London ; New York :
Routledge,
2000.
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| Colección: | Routledge contemporary introductions to philosophy.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Philosophy of Language introduces the student to the main issues and theories in twentieth-century philosophy of language. Topics are structured in three parts in the book. Part I, Reference and Referring Expressions, includes topics such as Russell's Theory of Desciptions, Donnellan's distinction, problems of anaphora, the description theory of proper names, Searle's cluster theory, and the causal-historical theory. Part II, Theories of Meaning, surveys the competing theories of linguistic meaning and compares their various advantages and liabilities. Part III, Pragmatics and Speech Acts, introduces the basic concepts of linguistic pragmatics, includes a detailed discussion of the problem of indirect force and surveys approaches to metaphor. Unique features of the text:* chapter overviews and summaries* clear supportive examples* study questions* annotated further reading* glossary. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xiv, 243 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-238) and index. |
| ISBN: | 0203190734 9780203190739 020313849X 9780203138496 9780415171151 0415171156 9780415171168 0415171164 6610354472 9786610354474 9781134696055 1134696051 9781134696000 1134696000 9781134696048 1134696043 |