Philosophy of Language. A Contemporary Introduction

Autor*innen

• William G. Lycan

Reihen

• Routledge – Zeitgenössische Einführungen in die Philosophie

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• Lehrbücher
• Philosophie
• Psychologie
• Sachliteratur
• Schule

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Philosophy of Language: a Contemporary Introduction introduces the student to the main issues and theories in twentieth-century philosophy of language, focusing specifically on linguistic phenomena. Topics are structured in three parts in the book. Part I, Reference and Referring Expressions, includes topics such as Russell's Theory of Desciptions, 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 v

• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2008