Philosophy of Language

It seems reasonable to believe that there might have existed things other than those that in fact exist, or have existed. But how should we underst...

Despite the considerable attention the topic of luck has received in ethics and epistemology, very little has been published in the philosophical l...

In the third volume in the Rutgers Lectures in Philosophy series, distinguished philosopher Robert Stalnaker here offers a defense of an ontology o...

Words Underway offers the first full account of the important contributions the Continental tradition has made to the philosophy of language. Carol...

When Toni Morrison declares that she can't wait for the ultimate liberation theory to imagine its practice and do its work, she raises an issue at ...

Language typology identifies similarities and differences among languages of the world. This textbook provides an introduction to the subject which...

Interpreting Figurative Meaning critically evaluates the recent empirical work from psycholinguistics and neuroscience examining the successes and ...

It is generally agreed that about 7,000 languages are spoken across the world today and at least half may no longer be spoken by the end of this ce...

This collection of essays on Saul Kripke and his philosophy is the first and only collection of essays to examine both published and unpublished wr...

The phenomenon of multimodality is central to our everyday interaction. 'Hybrid' modes of communication that combine traditional uses of language w...

This unique textbook introduces linguists to key issues in the philosophy of language. Accessible to students who have taken only a single course i...

Much of today's communication is carried out through various kinds of humor, and we therefore need to be able to understand its many aspects. Here,...

Much of today's communication is carried out through various kinds of humor, and we therefore need to be able to understand its many aspects. Here,...

Abstract concepts are often embodied through metaphor. For example, we talk about moving through time in metaphorical terms, as if we were moving t...

Meaning Is Everywhere sketches a theory of meaning from the ground upwith potentially profound consequences. In a sweeping narrative that arcs from...

Transforming Early English shows how historical pragmatics can offer a powerful explanatory framework for the changes medieval English and Older Sc...

Ernst Tugendhat's major work, Vorlesungen zur Einführung in die sprachanalytische Philosophie (1976), was translated into English in 1982. Although...

Contributions from an international team of experts revisit and update the concept of linguistic ecology in order to critically examine current the...

This volume contains Carnap's Studies in Semantics, a series of three interlocking books: Introduction to Semantics (1942), Formalization of Logic ...

This book presents a cutting-edge critical analysis of the trope of miscegenation and its biopolitical implications in contemporary Palestinian and...

This book explores how and in what ways the relationship between language, mind and computation can be conceived of, given that a number of foundat...