Philosophy of Language - A Contemporary Introduction Lycan William GPaperback / softback
Philosophy of Language - A Contemporary Introduction Lycan William GPaperback / softback Now in its third edition, Philosophy of Language: A Contemporary Introduction introduces students to the main…
Specifikacia Philosophy of Language - A Contemporary Introduction Lycan William GPaperback / softback
Philosophy of Language - A Contemporary Introduction Lycan William GPaperback / softback
Now in its third edition, Philosophy of Language: A Contemporary Introduction introduces students to the main issues and theories in twenty-first-century philosophy of language, focusing specifically on linguistic phenomena. Lycan structures the book into four general parts. Author William G.
Part II, Theories of Meaning, surveys the competing theories of linguistic meaning and compares their various advantages and liabilities. Part I, Reference and Referring, includes topics such as Russell's Theory of Descriptions (and its objections), Donnellan's distinction, problems of anaphora, the Description Theory of proper names, Searle's Cluster Theory, and the Causal-Historical Theory. Part III, Pragmatics and Speech Acts, introduces the basic concepts of linguistic pragmatics and includes a detailed discussion of the problem of indirect force.
Part IV, The Expressive