Philosophy of Language
"Reading Philosophy of Language"Selected Texts With Interactive Commentary
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"Reading Philosophy" series; Presents important writings by leading figures in the field of philosophy of language. Three texts are presented on each of six key topics: reference and meaning; speech and action; meaning and truth; knowledge of language; meaning and compositionality; and non-literal meaning. The editorial material featured, guides readers through these texts. With 0. Paperback, 336 pages. Size: 243 x 173 mm. Weight: 696g.
Author: (Hornsby, Jennifer, ed.)
ISBN: 1405124857
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Ltd
Date: 2005 (United Kingdom)
Readership: Professional & Vocational Philosophy of Language
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"Relative Truth"
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Relative Truth examines a question which has become the focus of one of the liveliest debates in philosophy: whether truth is relative to standards of taste, values, or subjective informational states. Specially written papers by leading figures, together with a helpful introduction, make this book the starting-point for future work. Paperback, 324 pages. Size: 234 x 156 mm. Weight: 518g.
Author: (Garcia-Carpintero, Manuel, ed.)
ISBN: 0199234949
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Date: 2008 (United Kingdom)
Readership: Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Philosophy of Language
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"The Revenge of the Liar"New Essays on the Paradox
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Fourteen new essays by some of the world's leading experts, together with an extensive introduction, examine the nature of the Liar paradox and its resistance to any attempt to solve it. Paperback, 384 pages. Size: 234 x 156 mm. Weight: 593g.
Author: (Beall, J.C., ed.)
ISBN: 019923390X
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Date: 2007 (United Kingdom)
Readership: Professional & Vocational Philosophy of Language
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"Semantics Versus Pragmatics"
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In this title, scholars in the philosophy of language and theoretical linguistics present papers on a major topic at the intersection of the two fields, the distinction between semantics and pragmatics. Contributors include: Kent Bach, Herman Cappelen, Michael Glanzberg, Jeffrey C. King, Ernie Lepore, F. Recanati, Zoltan Gendler Szabo and more. Paperback, 476 pages. Size: 234 x 156 mm. Weight: 722g.
Author: (Szabo, Zoltan Gendler, ed.)
ISBN: 0199251525
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Date: 2005 (United Kingdom)
Readership: Professional & Vocational Philosophy of Language
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"Teleosemantics"
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Seeks to explain meaning and other intentional phenomena in terms of their function in the life of the species. This volume of essays offers a summary of the state of the teleosemantics debate. With figures. Paperback, 240 pages. Size: 216 x 138 mm. Weight: 505g.
Author: (MacDonald, Graham, ed.)
ISBN: 0199270279
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Date: 2006 (United Kingdom)
Readership: Professional & Vocational Philosophy of Language
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"Syntactic Gradience"The Nature of Grammatical Indeterminacy
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An investigation of gradience in syntax, conceived of as grammatical indeterminacy, this book looks at gradience in English word classes, phrases, clauses and constructions, and examines how it may be recognized, defined, and differentiated. It considers the degree to which gradience is a grammatical phenomenon. With illustrations. Paperback, 296 pages. Size: 234 x 156 mm. Weight: 445g.
Author: Aarts, Bas
ISBN: 0199219273
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Date: 2007 (United Kingdom)
Readership: Professional & Vocational Philosophy of Language
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"Infancy and History"On the Destruction of Experience
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"Radical Thinkers" series; Presents radical meditation on language and philosophy. Paperback, 256 pages. Size: 197 x 140 mm. Weight: 505g.
Author: Agamben, Giorgio
ISBN: 1844675718
Publisher: Verso Books
Date: 2007 (United Kingdom)
Readership: Professional & Vocational Philosophy of Language
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"Classifiers"A Typology of Noun Categorization Devices
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"Oxford Studies in Typology & Linguistic Theory" series; Almost all languages have some ways of categorizing nouns. This book provides an analysis of noun categorization devices all over the world. It is for typologists, those working in the fields of morphosyntactic variation and lexical semantics, as well as anthropologists and all other scholars interested in the mechanisms of human cognition. Paperback, 562 pages. Size: 234 x 156 mm. Weight: 833g.
Author: Aikhenvald, Alexandra
ISBN: 019926466X
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Date: 2003 (United Kingdom)
Readership: Professional & Vocational Philosophy of Language
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"A Glossary of Language and Mind"
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"Glossaries in Linguistics" series; This alphabetical guide to language and mind gives an up-to-date introduction to the key topics of speech comprehension, speech production and child language. The entries are concise and lucid, and provide an easy-to-read overview of an area of linguistics which lies at the core of the human ability to use language. With 5 b&w illustrations, bibliography. Paperback, 140 pages. Size: 198 x 129 mm. Weight: 122g.
Author: Aitchison, Jean
ISBN: 0748618244
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Date: 2003 (United Kingdom)
Readership: Professional & Vocational Philosophy of Language
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"The Language Web"The Power and Problem of Words - the 1996 Bbc Reith Lectures
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This is the text of the 1996 BBC Reith lectures, with illustrations, notes, and an afterword added which looks at the reception of the lectures. With further reading, notes. Paperback, 156 pages. Size: 198 x 126 mm. Weight: 198g.
Author: Aitchison, Jean
ISBN: 0521574757
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date: 1996 (United Kingdom)
Readership: General (Us: Trade) Philosophy of Language
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"Being and Meaning"Reality and Language in Bhartrhari and Heidegger
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This book is comparative study of the concepts of Being and Language in Bhartrhari and Martin Heidegger, emphasising the universality of their thinking. Hardback, 356 pages. Weight: 542g.
Author: Alackapally, Sebastian
ISBN: 8120818032
Publisher: Motilal Banarsidass,
Date: 2002 (India)
Readership: Professional & Vocational Philosophy of Language
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"How to Do Things With Words"The William James Lectures Delivered in Harvard University in 1955
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"Oxford Paperbacks" series; This volume contains the late J.L. Austin's examination of his distinction of performative utterances from statements, and his subsequent theory of illocutionary forces of utterances. It is a revised version of his famous William James Lectures, delivered at Harvard University. With index. 2 rev ed. Paperback, 192 pages. Size: 185 x 125 mm. Weight: 215g.
Author: Austin, J.L.
ISBN: 019281205X
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Date: 1976 (United Kingdom)
Readership: Tertiary Education (Us: College) Philosophy of Language
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"The Rustle of Language"
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Essays discuss science, mythology, language, style, history, semiotics, literature, and meaning. With illustrations. Paperback, 382 pages. Size: 229 x 152 mm. Weight: 520g.
Author: Barthes, Roland
ISBN: 0520066294
Publisher: University Presses of California, Columbia and Princeton
Date: 1989 (Usa)
Readership: Undergraduate Philosophy of Language
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"Linguistic Behaviour"
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New ed. Hardback, 323 pages. Size: 222 x 146 mm. Weight: 520g.
Author: Bennett, Jonathan
ISBN: 0872200930
Publisher: Hackett Publishing Co, Inc
Date: 1990 (United States)
Readership: General (Us: Trade) Philosophy of Language
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"Jacques Derrida"
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"Religion & Postmodernism" series; Bennington, Geoffrey (trans.) Geoffrey Bennington sets out here to write an account of the thought of Jacques Derrida. Responding to Bennington's text at every turn is Derrida's own, excerpts from his life and thought that resist circumscription. These texts, as a dialogue and a contest, are a critical introduction to Derrida. With 37 halftones. New ed. Paperback, 428 pages. Size: 210 x 135 mm. Weight: 440g.
Author: Bennington, Geoffrey Derrida, Jacques
ISBN: 0226042626
Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
Date: 1999 (United States)
Readership: General (Us: Trade) Philosophy of Language
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