Philosophy of Language

How propaganda undermines democracy and why we need to pay attentionOur democracy today is fraught with political campaigns, lobbyists, liberal med...

Through a series of reflections from internationally renowned performance-makers and contextualising essays from leading theatre and performance sc...

An erudite exploration of transgressive language from the Renaissance by one of Europe’s greatest living philosophers.  This book explores how earl...

Why do we have different accents and where do they come from? Why do you say ‘tomayto’ and I say ‘tomahto’? And is one way of speaking better than ...

The studies of rhetoric and literature have been closely connected on the theoretical level ever since antiquity, and many great works of literatur...

Three prominent Wittgenstein scholars introduce the broad educational significance of Ludwig Wittgenstein's work to a wider audience of educational...

The Good, the Bad, and the BeautifulDiscourse about Values in Yoruba CultureBarry HallenReveals everyday language as the key to understanding moral...

Conceptual atomism claims that most concepts cannot be decomposed into features, so that the conjunction of the features is equivalent to the conce...

Three prominent Wittgenstein scholars introduce the broad educational significance of Ludwig Wittgenstein's work to a wider audience of educational...

This collection of classic and contemporary essays in philosophy of language offers a concise introduction to the field for students in graduate an...

This book is a collection of papers on various aspects of the syntax and morphosyntax of Germanic and Slavic languages (English, German, Czech, Pol...

The papers in this volume discuss pivotal issues pertaining to the linguistic approaches to metaphors from theoretical and applied points of view. ...

The main focus of this volume is on urbanity as a discursive way of human life in the city. Discourse is specified here in terms of semiotic codes ...

Music offers a new insight into human cognition. The musical play with sounds in time, in which we share feelings, gestures and narratives, has fas...

This unique book, inspired by the work of Umberto Eco - one of the greatest semioticians of all times - provides a compelling overview of current d...

This collection of classic and contemporary essays in philosophy of language offers a concise introduction to the field for students in graduate an...

This book carries forward the discourse on the mind’s engagement with the world. It reviews the semantic and metaphysical debates around internalis...

Produit de la conférence « Translatio et Histoire des idées », troisième du cycle Translatio, ce livre réunit des contributions reflétant l’actuali...

«This little gem offers the reader an overview of the various practices that form part of the ever increasing field of audiovisual translation (AVT...

Linguistics falls in the gap between arts and science, on the edges of which the most fascinating discoveries and the most important problems are f...

The essays in Logos and Life, mainly dating from 2014 and later, cover topics in philosophy of mind, philosophy of action, ethics and philosophy of...

In An Inquiry Into Meaning and Truth, Bertrand Russell returns to philosophy after a long period of writing about education, religion and marriage....

This book applies frameworks from behavioral economics to Western thinking about translation, mapping four approaches to eight keywords in translat...

Originally published in 1990, this book centres on a certain way of surveying a variety of theories of language, and on outlining a new proposal of...