Linguistics

Philosophers have been thinking about lying for several thousand years, yet this topic has only recently become a central area of academic interest...

Throughout his philosophical development, Wittgenstein was more concerned with language than with any other topic. No other philosopher has been as...

'Stuffed with entertaining detail ... Horrible Words is lively, provocative, witty and enlightening' The TimesNothing inflames the language purists...

This textbook/software package covers first-order language in a method appropriate for a wide range of courses, from first logic courses for underg...

First ever critical study of Tolkien''s little-known essay, which reveals how language invention shaped the creation of Middle-earth and beyond, to...

This book explores the internalism/externalism debate inherent in ontology and semantics from the point of view of phenomenology. The debate centre...

The seventeen chapters brought together in this volume represent a selection of papers presented at the International Conference on Bilingualism he...

Peter Adamson presents a lively introduction to six hundred years of European philosophy, from the beginning of the ninth century to the end of the...

The object of this volume is the study of missionary translation practices which occur within a colonial context of political domination and spirit...

The boundary between semantics and pragmatics has been important since the early twentieth century, but in the last twenty-five years it has become...

We think it is wise to accept reality, rather than fight for something that does not exist or might never be. But in Of Reality, Gianni Vattimo con...

Raciolinguistics reveals the central role that language plays in shaping our ideas about race. The book brings together a team of leading scholars-...

The notion of singular (or de re) thought has become central in philosophy of mind and language, yet there is still little consensus concerning the...

In this his latest book, Sangster presents a comprehensive theory that takes the cognitive view of language in a promising new direction, based upo...

Bertrand Russell famously distinguished between 'knowledge by acquaintance' and 'knowledge by description'. For much of the latter half of the twen...

On Goodness attempts to answer the question What is goodness? It is natural to associate this question with ethics; but goodness is not confined to...

In Wittgenstein on Logic as the Method of Philosophy, Oskari Kuusela examines Wittgenstein's early and late philosophies of logic, situating their ...

When you light a match it is the striking of it which causes the lighting; the presence of oxygen in the room is a background condition to the ligh...

Wylie Breckenridge offers a fresh understanding of the character of visual experience by deploying the methods of semantics. He develops a theory o...

In the foreword to Wisdom & Metaphor, Jan Zwicky observes that those who think metaphorically are enabled to think truly, because the shape of...