Philosophy of language : a contemporary introduction / William G. Lycan.
"Now in its Third Edition, Philosophy of Language: A Contemporary Introduction introduces students to the main issues and theories in twentieth-century philosophy of language, focusing specifically on linguistic phenomena. Author William G. Lycan structures the book into four general parts. Par...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York, NY :
Routledge,
2019.
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| Edition: | Third edition. |
| Series: | Routledge contemporary introductions to philosophy.
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Table of Contents:
- Reference and referring
- Definite descriptions
- Proper names: the description theory
- Proper names: direct reference and the causal-historical theory
- Theories of meaning
- Traditional theories of meaning
- Use theories
- Psychological theories: Grice's program
- Verificationism
- Truth-condition theories: Davidson's program
- Truth-condition theories: possible worlds and intensional semantics
- Pragmatics and speech acts
- Semantic pragmatics
- Speech acts and illocutionary force
- Implicative relations
- The expressive and the figurative
- Expressive language
- Metaphor.