Philosophy of Language

Truth, Language, and History is the much-anticipated final volume of Donald Davidson's philosophical writings. In the four groups of essays that co...

Arguing About Language presents a comprehensive selection of key readings on fundamental issues in the philosophy of language. It offers a fresh an...

First published in 1989, Goals, No-Goals and Own Goals presents a stimulating debate between three scientists and three philosophers about the sign...

Taking a unique approach which combines sociolinguistics with theoretical linguistics, this book presents a view of language and grammar as both a ...

Tracing the deep connections between philosophy and education, Ryan McInerney argues that we must use philosophy to reflect on the significance of ...

As the foundation of our rationality, logic has traditionally been considered fixed, stable and constant. This conception of the discipline has bee...

This book considers the work and influence of Charles Sanders Peirce, showing how the concepts and ideas he developed continue to impact and shape ...

Philosophy of language is the branch of philosophy that examines the nature of meaning, the relationship of language to reality, and the ways in wh...

Antonio Gramsci and his concept of hegemony have permeated social and political theory, cultural studies, education studies, literary criticism, in...

Reading The Phenomenology of Spirit through a linguistic lens, Jeffrey Reid provides an original commentary on Hegel’s most famous work. Beginning ...

Of all the tasks you perform, perhaps none is more consequential for the performance of other tasks than paying attention. When you attend, you per...

Nothing like wordplay can make difference between languages look so uncompromising, can give such a sharp edge to the dilemma between forms and eff...

Applicative Arguments: A Syntactic and Semantic Investigation of German and English presents formal semantic and syntactic analyses of German and E...

Inspired by a postgraduate French studies conference (University of Nottingham, 10 September 2008), this volume explores linguistic form and conten...

This book is a study of the category of definiteness in the light of research on mental spaces and frames. The author formulates a set of eight uni...

Making a contribution to the still under-researched translation history of Verne’s Extraordinary Journeys, this book examines the causes of a selec...

Contra Instrumentalism questions the long-accepted notion that translation reproduces or transfers an invariant contained in or caused by the sourc...

In the past decade the work of Jurgen Habermas has sparked off a series of lively debates over modernity and post-modernity, the nature of language...

V. N. Vološinov’s important work, first published in Russian in 1929, had to wait a generation for recognition. This first paperback edition of the...

Noam Chomsky has made major contributions to three fields: political history and analysis, linguistics, and the philosophies of mind, language, and...

Language, Names, and Information is an important contribution to philosophy of language by one of its foremost scholars, challenging the pervasive ...

Philosophy of Language: Philosophical Perspectives brings together state of the art essays to address the key issues at the heart of the philosophy...

In this new interpretation of Nietzsche's thought, Daniel Ahern examines Nietzsche's understanding of physiology and argues that Nietzsche saw hims...

Lorenzo Valla (1407–1457) ranks among the greatest scholars and thinkers of the Renaissance. He secured lasting fame for his brilliant critical ski...

"A model of popular-science writing" STEVEN POOLEWho was "the first speaker" and what was their first message?An erudite, tightly woven and beautif...

Ist der darstellerische Akt ein ursprüngliches Bedürfnis des Menschen? Woher kommt der Drang in uns, Theater zu schaffen? Die Religionen aller Welt...

In Language and Reality, originally published in São Paulo, Brazil, in 1964, Vilém Flusser continues his philosophical and theoretical exploration ...

Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.To hyphenate or not to hyphenate has been...