Products In Philosophy of language (Total Products 64, Showing: 1 -> 50)
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Analytic Philosophy: An Interpretive History explores the ways interpretation (of key figures, factions, texts, etc.) shaped the analytic tradition, ...
Writing tends to make people anxious, and with good reason. The first sentence of a job application letter can consign it to the bin. A speech inten...
Linguistic typology identifies both how languages vary and what they all have in common. This Handbook provides a state-of-the art survey of the aims ...
This book looks at how language has evolved around the globe from ancestral proto-languages to our recognisable modern tongues. It demonstrates how la...
First published in 1972, Dissemination contains three of Derrida's most central and seminal works: 'Plato's Pharmacy', 'The Double Session' and 'Disse...
We perceive color everywhere and on everything that we encounter in daily life. Color science has progressed to the point where a great deal is known ...
Aimed at the popular science market, this account of the origins and nature of language is entertaining and intellectually stimulating.
Collected and translated by John B. Thompson, this collection of essays by Paul Ricoeur includes many that had never appeared in English before the vo...
The Penguin Modern Poets are succinct, collectible, lovingly-assembled guides to the richness and diversity of contemporary poetry, from the UK, Ameri...
The way we create and organize knowledge is the theme of From the Tree to the Labyrinth, a major achievement by one of the world's foremost thinkers o...
Mark Turner makes the revolutionary claim that the basic issue for cognitive science is the nature of literary thinking. Using tools of modern linguis...
'I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it.'The most quotable writ...
This classic collection of essays, first published in 1979, has had an enduring influence on philosophical work on the nature of law and its relation ...
Consider Miles Davis, horn held high, sculpting a powerful musical statement full of tonal patterns, inside jokes, and thrilling climactic phrases-all...
'Some part of me believed I would become a more complete person if I spoke Irish, more in tune with my roots, my identity, my very being.'
'I was o...
In this book one of the world's foremost philosophers of language presents his unifying vision of the field--its principal achievements, its most pres...
Noam Chomsky is well known as a linguist and political thinker, but less well known as a philosopher. In this work, McGilvray explains Noam Chomsky's rationalist view of human nature.
Written by David Hornsby, who is a current Linguistics lecturer and researcher at theUniversity of Kent, Linguistics - The Essentials is designed to g...
This book focuses on the semantic phenomenon of evaluativity and its consequences across constructions. Evaluativity has traditionally been associated...
The Oxford Handbooks series is a major new initiative in academic publishing. Each volume offers an authoritative and up-to-date survey of original r...
Killing a person is in general among the most seriously wrongful forms of action, yet most of us accept that it can be permissible to kill people on a...
Writing tends to make people anxious, and with good reason. The first sentence of a job application letter can consign it to the bin. A speech intende...
In a single volume, the seminal writings of the world's leading philosopher, linguist and critic, and author of the bestselling Who Rules the World'Th...
a Naming and Necessitya has had a great and increasing influence. It redirected philosophical attention to neglected questions of natural and metaphysical necessity and to the connections between these and theories of naming, and of identity.
LONGLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE 2017How do we discuss serious ideas in the age of 24-hour news? What was rhetoric in the past and what should it be no...
V. N. Volosinov's important work, first published in Russian in 1929, had to wait a generation for recognition. This first paperback edition of the En...
In Hayes' book, The Happiness Passport, she joins the dots between these differing beliefs to help us cultivate a richer shared vocabulary of happine...
Demonstratives play a crucial role in the acquisition and use of language. Bringing together a team of leading scholars this detailed study, a first o...
This is a work in Kantian conceptual geography. It explores issues in analytic epistemology, philosophy of language, and metaphysics in particular by ...
Part philosophical meditation, part cultural critique, this profoundly original work explores the nature of physical suffering. Elaine Scarry bases he...
At its most basic, philosophy is about learning how to think about the world around us. It should come as no surprise, then, that children make excell...
This systematic introduction goes well beyond the fundamental constructions to provide extensive discussion of quantification, binding and anaphora, and ellipsis. Exercises check understanding and direct students towards further projects.
What Is Cultural Translation? In this book, Sarah Maitland uncovers processes of negotiation and adaptation closely associated with the translation o...
A many-faceted exploration of spoken eloquence: how it works, how it has evolved, and how to tap its remarkable power We all know eloquence when we he...
Kirk Ludwig presents a philosophical account of institutional action, such as action by corporations and nation states, arguing that it can be underst...
Formal semantics - the scientific study of meaning in natural language - is one of the most fundamental and long-established areas of linguistics. Thi...
Sanford C. Goldberg presents a novel account of the speech act of assertion. He defends the view that this type of speech act is answerable to a const...
T. M. Scanlon offers a qualified defense of normative cognitivism-the view that there are irreducibly normative truths about reasons for action. He re...
A fresh and fascinating look at the philosophies, politics, and intellectual legacy of one of the twentieth century's most influential and controversi...
A question that doesn't require an answer - what kind of question is that?The rhetorical question is one of those grammatical quirks that just doesn't...
It is natural to distinguish, for any thinking creature, those events and states that are internal to the creature - its brain states, for example - f...
In the blink of an eye, I can redirect my thought from London to Austin, from apples to unicorns, from former president Obama to the mythical flying h...
This radically original book argues for the power of ordinary language philosophy-a tradition inaugurated by Ludwig Wittgenstein and J. L. Austin, and...
As critic, Kenneth Burke's preoccupations were at the beginning purely esthetic and literary; but after Counter-Statement (1931), he began to discrimi...
An examination of the role of ostension-the bodily manifestation of intentio--in word learning, and an investigation of the philosophical puzzles it p...
Language and Meaning provides a clear, accessible and unique perspective on the philosophical and linguistic question of what it means to mean. Lookin...
Linguistics falls in the gap between arts and science, on the edges of which the most fascinating discoveries and the most important problems are foun...
Jacques Derrida, the French philosopher, developed his critical technique known as 'deconstruction'. His work is associated with ideas surrounding bot...
Foucault is one of those rare philosophers who has become a cult figure. Born in 1926 in France, over the course of his life he dabbled in drugs, poli...
Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951) was an extraordinarily original philospher, whose influence on twentieth-century thinking goes well beyond philosophy ...