Philosophy of Language

This book on the life and work of Josef Schächter, member of the Vienna Circle and Rabbi, covers all writings of his Viennese period until 1938. Th...

This book offers a self-reflective, critical approach to the study of what is popularly known as polyglossia, charting the gradual but marked proce...

A collaboration between three distinguished professors of linguistics and philosophy. This book is a result, not only of the collaboration of the t...

Good as Usual argues that contemporary discussion on the nature of norms and values goes wrong by treating them as exceptional and mysterious, sinc...

It's a platitude that words can harm. But some words are more prone to do so than others--they are pejorative by design. Among those, slurs are par...

Die Publikation hat das Ziel, Analogierelationen als heuristische Zauberstäbe bzw. als semiotische Universalien anzusehen, über die sich Unbekannte...

The ground-breaking and monumental encyclopedia of philosophical terms read through the history of their translation, Vocabulaire Europen des philo...

Linguists have standardly assumed that grammar is about identifying all and only the 'good' sentences of a language, which implies that there must ...

In the three volumes of Major Trends in Theoretical and Applied Linguistics, the editors guide the reader through a well-selected compendium of wor...

In the three volumes of Major Trends in Theoretical and Applied Linguistics, the editors guide the reader through a well-selected compendium of wor...

Negation is a sine qua non of every human language but is absent from otherwise complex systems of animal communication. In many ways, it is negati...

Aboutness has been studied from any number of angles. Brentano made it the defining feature of the mental. Phenomenologists try to pin down the abo...

This edited volume presents an innovative perspective on conversation and is the first book to deal with the epistemic aspects of conversation or d...

***Shortlisted for the Architectural Book Awards 2024***It is a common enough assumption that good buildings make us feel good just as poor ones ca...

This comprehensive volume examines the relationship between revolutionary politics and the act of writing in modern South Asia. Its pages feature a...

Sonic Encounters with Blanchot is the first book to explore the relationship of sound and music with the work of Maurice Blanchot. The volume bring...

This book contains a selection of texts written by the Rabbi and Vienna Circle member Josef Schächter after his emigration to Palestine/Israel. The...

Benveniste's lectures had a shaping influence on a generation of scholars that includes Barthes, Deleuze, Foucault, Derrida, Kristeva and Todorov a...

In three comprehensive volumes divided into five books, Logic of the Future presents a full panorama of Charles S. Peirce's important late writing...

This book addresses the problem of self-knowledge in Kants philosophy. As Kant writes in his major works of the critical period, it is due to the s...

Sonic Encounters with Blanchot is the first book to explore the relationship of sound and music with the work of Maurice Blanchot. The volume bring...