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This book argues for a version of semanticalism, treating semantic properties as emergent and natural. They are needed to explain how linguistic expressions guide us to reality. We ought to accept semantic properties since our best theory of the world makes reference to them.
This book argues for a version of semanticalism, treating semantic properties as emergent and natural. They are needed to explain how linguistic expressions guide us to reality. We ought to accept semantic properties since our best theory of the world makes reference to them.
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Pragmatic Perspectives on Language and Linguistics Volume II
Pragmatics of Semantically-Restricted Domains
This volume focuses on pragmatics-oriented analyses of semantically-restricted domains. It addresses phenomena from a variety of perspectives, exploring politics, ideology, humour, power, media, and specialized communication in business, law, and science.
This volume focuses on pragmatics-oriented analyses of semantically-restricted domains. It addresses phenomena from a variety of perspectives, exploring politics, ideology, humour, power, media, and specialized communication in business, law, and science.
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A Theory of Literary Explication
Specifying a Relativistic Foundation in Epistemic Probability, Cognitive Science, and Second-Order Logic
This book forges a middle way between the postmodern view of infinite interpretations and the intentionalist view of one. Drawing on multidisciplinary research, it provides a foundation for judging some explications of a literary work to be better than others.
This book forges a middle way between the postmodern view of infinite interpretations and the intentionalist view of one. Drawing on multidisciplinary research, it provides a foundation for judging some explications of a literary work to be better than others.
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Inference, Consequence, and Meaning
Perspectives on Inferentialism
Inferentialism holds that an expression's meaning depends on the inferential rules governing its use. This collection of essays explores various case studies to discuss to what extent the central tenets of this theory are tenable.
Inferentialism holds that an expression’s meaning depends on the inferential rules governing its use. This collection of essays explores various case studies to discuss to what extent the central tenets of this theory are tenable.
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Discover ancient Chinese theories of knowledge, where a structured cosmos mirrors the mind. This book offers a vital epistemological alternative, challenging the dominance of Euro-American models and filling a crucial gap in Western thought.
Discover ancient Chinese theories of knowledge, where a structured cosmos mirrors the mind. This book offers a vital epistemological alternative, challenging the dominance of Euro-American models and filling a crucial gap in Western thought.
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While Searle’s theory of social reality shapes the debate, it faces sharp criticism. This book approaches the issue from another angle, retracing the concept's origins to move beyond language-based analysis and debate the very nature of reality.
While Searle’s theory of social reality shapes the debate, it faces sharp criticism. This book approaches the issue from another angle, retracing the concept’s origins to move beyond language-based analysis and debate the very nature of reality.
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Paolo Casalegno was a brilliant and probing philosopher and one of the best minds in a generation. His essays in the philosophy of logic and language are remarkable for their rigour, originality, and fundamental insights.
Paolo Casalegno was a brilliant and probing philosopher and one of the best minds in a generation. His essays in the philosophy of logic and language are remarkable for their rigour, originality, and fundamental insights.
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Lines of Thought
Rethinking Philosophical Assumptions
In this innovative book, philosopher Claudio Costa argues that old philosophical ideas should be reworked, not dismissed. He challenges contemporary analytical philosophy's views on language, knowledge, and free will, aiming to restore a broader, more comprehensive perspective.
In this innovative book, philosopher Claudio Costa argues that old philosophical ideas should be reworked, not dismissed. He challenges contemporary analytical philosophy’s views on language, knowledge, and free will, aiming to restore a broader, more comprehensive perspective.
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Fictional Names
A Critical Study of Some Theories Not Committed to the Existence of Fictional Entities
What are we naming when we use terms like Sherlock Holmes? If we are speaking about nothing, how do we understand it? This book critiques theories denying existence to fictional characters, analyzing their contribution to the meaning of sentences and our thoughts.
What are we naming when we use terms like Sherlock Holmes? If we are speaking about nothing, how do we understand it? This book critiques theories denying existence to fictional characters, analyzing their contribution to the meaning of sentences and our thoughts.
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The philosophical debate on truth has exploded in recent years. Sparked by the struggle over deflationism, the discussion has broadened and deepened. The essays in this book highlight how much is left to explore and how real progress can be achieved.
The philosophical debate on truth has exploded in recent years. Sparked by the struggle over deflationism, the discussion has broadened and deepened. The essays in this book highlight how much is left to explore and how real progress can be achieved.
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Is There an End of Ideologies?
Exploring Constructs of Ideology and Discourse in Marxist and Post-Marxist Theories
Is ideology just a political pejorative? Can we be free from it? To clarify misunderstandings about the key concepts of ideology and discourse, this book traces their origins, their appropriation by Marxist theorists, and examines the relationship between them.
Is ideology just a political pejorative? Can we be free from it? To clarify misunderstandings about the key concepts of ideology and discourse, this book traces their origins, their appropriation by Marxist theorists, and examines the relationship between them.
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Telling Time
Tensed and Temporal Meaning between Philosophy and Linguistics
Leading philosophers, logicians, and linguists explore the relationship between time and language, from tensed beliefs to monstrous eternalism. An essential volume for scholars and students in the field.
Leading philosophers, logicians, and linguists explore the relationship between time and language, from tensed beliefs to monstrous eternalism. An essential volume for scholars and students in the field.
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This collection explores the relationship between Ludwig Wittgenstein’s “analytic stance” towards philosophy and the inherently apophatic nature of his epistemology. This is the first publication to thoroughly explore this subject through this particular hermeneutical lens.
This collection explores the relationship between Ludwig Wittgenstein’s “analytic stance” towards philosophy and the inherently apophatic nature of his epistemology. This is the first publication to thoroughly explore this subject through this particular hermeneutical lens.
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Understanding Meaning and World
A Relook on Semantic Externalism
Chakraborty explores the internalism/externalism debate inherent in ontology and semantics from the viewpoint of phenomenology. His approach is distinctive in the sense that it formulates a reconciliation between both sides by inventing an internalistic-externalism view.
Chakraborty explores the internalism/externalism debate inherent in ontology and semantics from the viewpoint of phenomenology. His approach is distinctive in the sense that it formulates a reconciliation between both sides by inventing an internalistic-externalism view.
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Communication as a Life Process
Beyond Human Cognition
This volume presents the ecolinguistic paradigm, a dynamic, multilayer approach to human communication. Founded on a holistic paradigm, these contributions complement the mainstream focus on cognitive systems by pointing to non-cognitive modalities in the communication process.
This volume presents the ecolinguistic paradigm, a dynamic, multilayer approach to human communication. Founded on a holistic paradigm, these contributions complement the mainstream focus on cognitive systems by pointing to non-cognitive modalities in the communication process.
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Applications of Relevance Theory
From Discourse to Morphemes
This anthology discusses various applications of Relevance Theory within several areas of pragmatics and discourse analysis. It covers an array of topics, including the treatment of figurative language, pragmatic markers and lexical pragmatics within Relevance Theory.
This anthology discusses various applications of Relevance Theory within several areas of pragmatics and discourse analysis. It covers an array of topics, including the treatment of figurative language, pragmatic markers and lexical pragmatics within Relevance Theory.
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Linguistics and the Parts of the Mind
Or How to Build a Machine Worth Talking To
This book criticizes the neglect of “macrolinguistics”—the rules of sequence in dialogue. Its central thesis concerns the influence of these larger linguistic units on theories of the mind, developing consequences of interest to both philosophers and linguists.
This book criticizes the neglect of “macrolinguistics”—the rules of sequence in dialogue. Its central thesis concerns the influence of these larger linguistic units on theories of the mind, developing consequences of interest to both philosophers and linguists.
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Mind, Body, and Consciousness in Society
Thinking Vygotsky via Chomsky
Mocombe explores the nature of learning and development in the philosophy of phenomenological structuralism, which represents an effort to resolve the structure/agency problematic of the social sciences within structurationist sociological theory.
Mocombe explores the nature of learning and development in the philosophy of phenomenological structuralism, which represents an effort to resolve the structure/agency problematic of the social sciences within structurationist sociological theory.
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A Walk in the Landscape of Language
A Journey towards a Heideggerian Understanding with Language
Young addresses Heidegger’s dense prose seeking an understanding of ‘language’ which leads to a journey that allows the emergence of the terrain revealed when travelling with the philosopher. He offers an experience of walking with Heidegger when considering ‘language’.
Young addresses Heidegger’s dense prose seeking an understanding of ‘language’ which leads to a journey that allows the emergence of the terrain revealed when travelling with the philosopher. He offers an experience of walking with Heidegger when considering ‘language’.
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Abdication of the Sovereign Self
The Psycholinguistics of Invalid Synthetic Propositions
Spano looks at how much of our verbal communication can be considered valid from perspective of the rules of logic. The book is a call for introspection in the hope that the reader will recognise the situation described here reflected in both himself and the society he inhabits.
Spano looks at how much of our verbal communication can be considered valid from perspective of the rules of logic. The book is a call for introspection in the hope that the reader will recognise the situation described here reflected in both himself and the society he inhabits.
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