James Mcelvenny

Language and Meaning in the Age of Modernism

C.K. Ogden and His Contemporaries

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Produktbeschreibung

This book explores the influential currents in the philosophy of language and linguistics of the first half of the twentieth century, from the perspective of the English scholar C. K. Ogden (1889-1957). It reveals links between early analytic philosophy, semiotics and linguistics in a crucial period of their respective histories.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Edinburgh University Press
• Seitenzahl: 200
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. August 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 153mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 285g
• ISBN-13: 9781474425063
• ISBN-10: 1474425062
• Artikelnr.: 55347643

Autorenporträt

James McElvenny is a Researcher in the Collaborative Research Centre "Media of Co-operation" at the University of Siegen, and has previously held positions at the universities of Edinburgh, Cambridge and Potsdam. He is the author of Language and Meaning in the Age of Modernism (EUP, 2018), and editor of The Limits of Structuralism (2023) and Form and Formalism in Linguistics (2019).

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
1. Introduction
2. The Meaning of Meaning
I. The many functions of language
II. Definition and the canons of symbolism
III. Logical atomism and its allies
IV. The trigonometry of reference
V. Significs and sympathisers
VI. Antagonism and synthesis
VII. Philologists, psychologists and anthropologists
3. Basic English
I. The Enlightenment and modernity
II. Peace and progress
III. The common solution
IV. Basic English and the common solution
V. Panoptic conjugation
VI. Grammatical reform
VII. Bentham and beyond
VIII. Totalitarianism and Newspeak
4. Ogden and the Vienna Circle
I. The Viennese scene
II. The everyday versus metaphysics
III. International picture language
IV. Contact and collaboration
V. Totalitarianism revisited
5. Epilogue
I. Linguistics
II. Natural Semantic Metalanguage
Bibliography