Xinli Wang

Incommensurability and Cross-Language Communication

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A dominant epistemological assumption behind Western philosophy is that it is possible to locate some form of commonality between languages, traditions, or cultures that makes full linguistic communication between them attainable. Xinli Wang challenges this assumption by exploring why and how linguistic communication between two conceptually disparate languages, traditions, or cultures is often problematic and even unattainable.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 384
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. April 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 712g
• ISBN-13: 9780754630340
• ISBN-10: 075463034X
• Artikelnr.: 57047294

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: The many facets of incommensurability
Incommensurability as untranslatability
Incommensurability and conceptual schemes
In defense of the very notion of conceptual schemes
Case studies: the emergence of truth-value gaps
Toward the presuppositional interpretation
Kuhn's taxonomic incommensurability: a reconstruction
A defense of the notion of semantic presupposition
The structure of a presuppositional language
Existential presumptions and universal principles
Categorical frameworks
The failure of cross-language understanding
Hermeneutic understanding in abnormal discourse
Informative communication breakdown: the transmission model
Dialogical communication breakdown I: Gadamer's conversation model
Dialogical communication breakdown II: Habermas's discourse model
The concept of incommensurability
Bibliography
Index.