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Book Title
Philosophy of Language : A Contemporary Introduction
ISBN
9781138504585
Subject Area
Language Arts & Disciplines, Philosophy
Publication Name
Philosophy of Language
Item Length
9 in
Publisher
Routledge
Subject
Language, General, Linguistics / General
Series
Routledge Contemporary Introductions to Philosophy Ser.
Publication Year
2018
Type
Textbook
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Item Height
0.6 in
Author
William G. Lycan
Features
New Edition
Item Width
5.9 in
Number of Pages
252 Pages

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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. Author William G. Lycan structures the book into four general parts. 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 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 and includes a detailed discussion of the problem of indirect force. Part IV, The Expressive and the Figurative, examines various forms of expressive language and what "metaphorical meaning" is and how most listeners readily grasp it. Features of Philosophy of Language include: chapter overviews and summaries; clear supportive examples; study questions; annotated lists of further reading; a glossary. Updates to the third edition include: an entirely new chapter, "Expressive Language" (Chapter 14), covering verbal irony, sarcasm, and pejorative language (particularly slurs); the addition in several chapters of short sections on pretense theories, addressing (1) puzzles about reference, (2) irony, and (3) metaph∨ a much expanded discussion of Relevance Theory, particularly its notion of ad hoc concept construction or "loosening and tightening," and the application of that to metaph∨ new discussion of Cappelen and Lepore's skepticism about content-dependence; up-to-date coverage of new literature, further reading lists, and the bibliography, as well as an improved glossary.

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Publisher
Routledge
ISBN-10
1138504580
ISBN-13
9781138504585
eBay Product ID (ePID)
8038852346

Product Key Features

Author
William G. Lycan
Publication Name
Philosophy of Language
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Features
New Edition
Subject
Language, General, Linguistics / General
Series
Routledge Contemporary Introductions to Philosophy Ser.
Publication Year
2018
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Language Arts & Disciplines, Philosophy
Number of Pages
252 Pages

Dimensions

Item Length
9 in
Item Height
0.6 in
Item Width
5.9 in

Additional Product Features

Edition Number
3
LCCN
2018-013454
Lc Classification Number
P106.L886 2018
Edition Description
New Edition
Reviews
"An authoritative, pedagogically sensitive and superbly clear introduction to the central issues of the philosophy of language." Paul Boghossian, New York University, USA
Table of Content
1. Introduction: Meaning and Reference Part 1: Reference and Referring 2. Definite Descriptions 3. Proper Names: The Description Theory 4. Proper Names: Direct Reference and the Causal¿Historical Theory Part II: Theories of Meaning 5. Traditional Theories of Meaning 6. "Use" Theories 7. Psychological Theories: Grice's Program 8. Verificationism 9. Truth-Condition Theories: Davidson's Program 10. Truth-Condition Theories: Possible Worlds and Intensional Semantics Part III: Pragmatics and Speech Acts 11. Semantic Pragmatics 12. Speech Acts and Illocutionary Force 13. Implicative Relations Part IV: The Expressive and the Figurative 14. Expressive Language 15. Metaphor Glossary Bibliography Index
Copyright Date
2019
Target Audience
College Audience
Dewey Decimal
401
Dewey Edition
23
Illustrated
Yes

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