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9780521537445: Word and World: Practice and the Foundations of Language
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ISBN 10: 0521537444 ISBN 13: 9780521537445
Casa editrice: Cambridge University Press, 2004

Sinossi

Proposes a new account of the nature of language, founded upon an original interpretation of Wittgenstein.

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Descrizione del libro

This important book proposes a new account of the nature of language, founded upon an original interpretation of Wittgenstein. This book will interest not only philosophers of language but also linguists, psycholinguists, students of communication and all those concerned with the nature and acquisition of human linguistic capacities.

Contenuti

Introduction; Part I. Scepticism and Language: 1. The prison-house of language; 2. Referential realism; 3. Out of the prison-house; Part II. Names and Their Bearers: 4. Russell's principle and Wittgenstein's slogan; 5. The name-tracking network; 6. Rigidity; 7. Description and causes; 8. Knowledge of rules; Part III. Propositions: 9. Meaning and truth; 10. Truth and use; 11. Unnatural kinds; 12. Necessity and 'grammar'; Part IV. Paradoxes of Interpretation: 13. Indeterminacy of translation; 14. Linguistic competence; 15. Paradox and substitutivity; Epilogue.

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Editore
Cambridge University Press
Data di pubblicazione
2004
Lingua
Inglese
ISBN 10 
0521537444
ISBN 13 
9780521537445
Rilegatura
Copertina flessibile
Numero di pagine
432
Contatto del produttore
non disponibile
Persona responsabile
gpsr@libri.de
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