Philosophy of Language

This book argues that definite descriptions ('the table', 'the King of France') refer to individuals, as Gottlob Frege claimed. This apparently sim...

Are there such things as merely possible people, who would have lived if our ancestors had acted differently? Are there future people, who have not...

Julian Wolfreys starts with loss. All memory is the memory of loss... All that we are, all we experience, all we remember, all that we forget but w...

Some part of me believed I would become a more complete person if I spoke Irish, more in tune with my roots, my identity, my very being.  I was o...

The fundamental issues that structure social and political philosophy revolve around the tensions between cooperative (ethical) values and competit...

This book analyzes the uses of emotive language and redefinitions from pragmatic, dialectical, epistemic and rhetorical perspectives, investigating...

This book examines how speakers of Ibero-Romance 'do things' with conversational units of language, paying particular attention to what they do wit...

Do we really know how words actually refer to things, how they describe the world? These questions are not limited to the study of language. They q...

Meaning, the complex phenomenon of individuation and the definition of identity are the core theme of this work. Grounded on a theoretical framewor...

Henri Meschonnic was a linguist, poet, translator of the Bible and one of the most original French thinkers of his generation. He strove throughout...

Semantics aims to describe the significance (or meaning) of linguistic expressions in a systematic way. Metasemantics, or foundational semantics, a...

Why are facts and statistics disparaged and dismissed, now more than ever? Why do people trust 'fake news'? If we have 'had enough of experts' who ...

Linguistic pragmatism claims that what we literally say goes characteristically beyond what the linguistic properties themselves mandate. In this b...

La straordinaria polifonia di lingue che caratterizza le letterature nazionali di eta moderna e ormai un dato acquisito nelle piu aggiornate ricost...

Essays on Existence and Essence presents a series of writings--including several previously unpublished--by Bob Hale on the topics of ontology and ...

Traditional philosophical discussions of knowledge have focused on the epistemic status of full beliefs. Sarah Moss argues that in addition to full...

Semantics for Reasons is a book about what we mean when we talk about reasons. It not only brings together the theory of reasons and natural langua...

Truth is one of the oldest and most central topics in philosophy. Formal theories explore the connections between truth and logic, and they address...

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...

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

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...

This book is a philosophical guide on metaphor use. Previous research concerning metaphors has focused on either the theoretical-linguistic problem...

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

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

An eclectic history of human curiosity, a great feast of ideas, and a memoir of a reading life from an internationally celebrated reader and thinke...

`E: Erroneous: Capable of being proved true'; `J: Jolly: The downfall of our enemies'; `M: Mystery: What I understand and you don't' . . . Enter th...

A many-faceted exploration of spoken eloquence: how it works, how it has evolved, and how to tap its remarkable power We all know eloquence when we...

This volume brings together a selection of 20 out of altogether 170 papers presented at the 13th International Conference on the History of the Lan...