Word and World. Practice and the Foundations of Language. - BERNARD HARRISON|HANNA,PATRICIA
Practice and the Foundations of Language
KORTE INHOUD
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.
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2003Uitgever: Cambridge University Press432 paginasTaal: EngelsISBN-10: 0521537444ISBN-13: 9780521537445Koop dit boek tweedehands
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Original publisher's dark-red paperback, title spine and frontcover, large 8vo: xij, 420pp. Very fine copy - as new. Cambridge-New York, Cambridge University Press 2003 [Auteur: BERNARD HARRISON/HANNA,PATRICIA] [Jaar: 2003] [Titel: Word and World. Practice and the Foundations of Language.]
