It is a near truism of philosophy of language that sentences are prior to words---that they are the only things that fundamentally have meaning. Robert's Stainton's study interrogates this idea, drawing on a wide body of evidence to argue that speakers can and do use mere words, not sentences, to communicate complex thoughts.
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Publisher
Oxford University Press
ISBN-13
9780199250394
eBay Product ID (ePID)
96083638
Product Key Features
Subject Area
Developmental Psychology
Author
Robert Stainton
Publication Name
Words and Thoughts: Subsentences, Ellipsis, and the Philosophy of Language