Philosophy of Language

‘Electrifying … A user manual for our polarized world’ Adam Grant, #1 New York Times-bestselling author of Think Again ‘Important, compel...

This book investigates philosophical and formal approaches to predication. The topics discussed include Aristotelian predication, a conceptualist a...

In this original study, Rachel Coventry expands Heidegger’s philosophy of art to include his ontological account of poetry and technology. Followin...

The aim of this book is the analysis of Kazimierz Ajdukiewicz’s meta-epistemological project of the semantic theory of knowledge and its implementa...

The Oxford Handbook of Reasons and Normativity maps a central terrain of philosophy, and provides an authoritative guide to it. Few concepts have r...

These are exciting times for philosophical theorizing about propositions, with the last 15 years seeing the development of new approaches and the e...

The Limits of Language concerns itself with the nature and limits of language at a time when our understanding of the world and of ourselves is int...

Modern literature is often described in terms of its impersonality. What is the significance of this fact? In Skepticism and Impersonality, V. Josh...

This volume investigates the precise contours of the connections between two foundational concepts: reference (the means of semantically expressing...

The book is not only dedicated to linguists, but also to readers who are not familiar with notations developed in linguistics. The first part of th...

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 o...

The nature of propositions and the cognitive value of names have been the focal point of philosophy of language for the last few decades. The advoc...

Uncovering an aspect of Gottlob Frege’s linguistic theorizing that has until now received little attention, this volume offers the first detailed e...

This book defends the Direct Reference (DR) thesis in philosophy of language regarding proper names and indexical pronouns. It uniquely draws out t...

This book is about rules, and especially about human capability to create, maintain and follow rules, as a root of what makes us humans different f...

This book is the first part of a comprehensive study of Wittgenstein’s conception of language description. Describing language was no pastime occup...

Now in its third edition, Philosophy of Language: A Contemporary Introduction introduces students to the main issues and theories in twenty-first-c...

The cultural discourse of theatrical performance defines the theatre sign interaction as an active semiosis. This, in turn, specifies the main obje...

While multimodality is one of the most influential semiotic theories for analysing media artefacts, the concepts of this theory are heterogeneous a...

John Stuart Mill considered his A System of Logic, first published in 1843, the methodological foundation and intellectual groundwork of his later ...

Dieser Band enthält die Akten einer im Herbst 2004 gehaltenen internationalen Fachtagung über «Zentrale Probleme bei der Erforschung der älteren Ru...