Philosophy of Language

Wittgenstein used the concept of language games to refer to all forms of linguistic expression in practical contexts and to the myriad ways in whic...

What is language? How did it originate and how does it work? What is its relation to thought and, beyond thought, to reality? Questions like these ...

We are often asked to describe ourselves. In response, one might propose a few adjectives, or possibly even a brief account of how they became the ...

Die »Enzyklopädie Philosophie- und Wissenschaftstheorie«, das größte allgemeine Nachschlagewerk zur Philosophie im deutschsprachigen Raum, wurde 19...

This special issue is comprised of a selection of studies presented at the Language Learning Workshop: Issues on Second Language Processing held in...

Persian syntax has been analyzed within various theoretical models to explore language specific rules that generate various syntactic structures su...

Focusing on the anthropological consequences of the disappearing of materiality and sensory embodiment, On Insignificance highlights some of the mo...

In the context of debates about truth, nihilism is the view that nothing is true. This is a very striking and (at first) implausible thesis, which ...

This volume looks to core ideas defining Goethes work and his influence on his contemporaries and inheritors. Contributions to this volume explore ...

An outstanding and moving essay on the Palestinian struggle and the power of narrative from the Women's Prize for Fiction-shortlisted author of Ent...

By creating certain marks on paper, or by making certain sounds-breathing past a moving tongue-or by articulation of hands and bodies, language use...

The Oxford Handbook of Contemporary Philosophy of Language introduces readers to the main issues and theories in the philosophy of language as curr...

In The Autonomy of Reference: On the Relational Structure of Nominals, Zoltán Vecsey defends a moderate autonomy thesis concerning the explanatory ...

Acclaimed novelist and academic Tabish Khair argues that literature as a distinct mode of thinking can counteract fundamentalism. Literature is a ...

This new edition of Wittgensteins book, strictly following the authors recommendations, allows a more immediate comprehension of the text and disso...

This new edition of Wittgensteins book, strictly following the authors recommendations, allows a more immediate comprehension of the text and disso...

In Being Another Way, Dustin Klinger recounts the history of how medieval Arabic philosophers in the Islamic East grappled with the logical role of...

This volume analyses the complex relations between multilingualism and the media: how the media manage multilingualism; how multilingualism is pres...

This book is about language, mind and consciousness. It traces lines of relevance from the philosophy of language to the philosophy of mind, and fo...

The approach to images as cultural documents of collective memory and instruments of social shaping builds a central theoretical component of cultu...

Foundational theories of meaning, and the broader metasemantic projects they contribute to, promise to answer the seemingly simple yet intractable ...

Part of James Joyces genius was his ability to find the poetry in everyday life. For Joyce, even a simple object like a table becomes magical, a bo...

Part of James Joyces genius was his ability to find the poetry in everyday life. For Joyce, even a simple object like a table becomes magical, a bo...

Is art a form of communication? If so, what does art express or represent? How should we interpret the meaning of works created by more than one ar...

Expression is typically construed as a relation between two ontologically distinct itemsnamely, a vehicle and a contentbut it is better construed n...

Is art a form of communication? If so, what does art express or represent? How should we interpret the meaning of works created by more than one ar...

Expression is typically construed as a relation between two ontologically distinct itemsnamely, a vehicle and a contentbut it is better construed n...

Are there nonexistent objects? Can we make sense of objects having properties without thinking that there are nonexistent objects? Is existence a...

This book looks at three different kinds of writing practice - theory-fiction, autofiction/autotheory and art writing - that are increasingly preva...

This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. It is free to read on the Oxford Academic platfo...

In seven essays, this book offers a tour de force through those seven disciplines in the humanities that lately underwent a fundamental transformat...

A primatologist and a humanist together explore the meaning of being a human animalHumanness is typically defined by our capacity for language and ...

A bold new critique of dialogue as a method of eliminating dissent Is dialogue always the productive political and communicative tool it is widely ...

Many physical theories suggest that time does not pass, yet temporality deeply permeates our experience. We perceive change and movement, we are aw...

Working from newly available texts in Heidegger's Complete Works, Krzysztof Ziarek presents Heidegger at his most radical and demonstrates how the ...

William Lycan is an internationally renowned American philosopher whose work since the late 1960s has been not only extensive but also influential,...

This book is an advanced debate on the nature of scalar implicatures, one of the most popular topics in philosophical linguistics in the last 20 ye...

The fascinating history of French words that have entered the English language and the fertile but fraught relationship between English- and French...

The fascinating history of French words that have entered the English language and the fertile but fraught relationship between English- and French...