Patricia Hanna, Bernard Harrison

Word and World

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Proposing a new account of the nature of language, founded upon an original interpretation of Wittgenstein, Patricia Hanna and Bernard Harrison deny the existence of a direct referential relationship between words and things. Their provocative re-examination of the interrelations of language and social practice will interest not only philosophers of language but also linguists, psycholinguists, and students of communication.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 434
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. Februar 2004
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 625g
• ISBN-13: 9780521537445
• ISBN-10: 0521537444
• Artikelnr.: 21794942

Inhaltsangabe

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.