عنوان

Word and world: practice and the foundations of language

زبان متن نوشتاري يا گفتاري و مانند آن

eng

عنوان اصلي

Word and world: practice and the foundations of language

خط فهرست نويسي و خط اصلي شناسه

This important book proposes a new account of the nature of language, founded upon an original interpretation of Wittgenstein. The authors deny the existence of a direct referential relationship between words and things. Rather, the link between language and world is a two-stage one, in which meaning is used and in which a natural language should be understood as fundamentally a collection of socially devised and maintained practices. Arguing against the philosophical mainstream descending from Frege and Russell to Quine, Davidson, Dummett, McDowell, Evans, Putnam, Kripke and others, the authors demonstrate that discarding the notion of reference does not entail relativism or semantic nihilism. A provocative re-examination of the interrelations of language and social practice, this book will interest not only philosophers of language but also linguists, psycholinguists, students of communication and all those concerned with the nature and acquisition of human linguistic capacities.

محل نشرو پخش و غیره

Cambridge

نام ناشر، پخش کننده و غيره

Cambridge University Press

تاریخ نشرو بخش و غیره

2004

نام خاص و کميت اثر

xii, 420 p.; 24 cm.

متن يادداشت

Includes bibliographical references )p. 383-397( and index

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ISBN: 0521822874

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Patricia Hanna, Bernard Harrison

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1

عنصر شناسه ای

، Language and languages -- Philosophy

عنصر شناسه ای

، Reference )Linguistics(

شماره رده

عنصر شناسه اي

Hanna, Patricia

کد نقش

AU

عنصر شناسه اي

AU Harrison, Bernard 1933-

عنصر شناسه اي

TI