Incommensurability and Cross-Language Communication
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Abnormal Discourse
Alternative Conceptual Schemes
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Chinese Medical Language
Common Language
Communication Breakdown
Complete Communication Breakdown
conceptual schemes
cross-cultural linguistic barriers
Cross-Language Communication
Cross-language Communication Breakdown
Cross-language Understanding
epistemology theory
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Gadamer's Conversation Model
Gadamer’s Conversation Model
Habermas's Discourse Model
Habermas’s Discourse Model
hermeneutics
philosophy of language
Phlogiston Theory
Presuppositional Interpretation
Presuppositional Languages
Propositional Understanding
Quinean Notion
Scheme Content Distinction
Scheme Content Dualism
Scientific Languages
scientific paradigms
semantic presupposition
Semantic Presuppositions
Traditional Chinese Medical Theory
Translation Failure Interpretation
understanding
Western Medical Language
Yin Yang Doctrine
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- ISBN 9780754630340
- Weight: 703g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 30 Apr 2007
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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A dominant epistemological assumption behind Western philosophy is that it is possible to locate some form of commonality between languages, traditions, or cultures - such as a common language or lexicon, or a common notion of rationality - which makes full linguistic communication between them always attainable. Xinli Wang argues that the thesis of incommensurability challenges this assumption by exploring why and how linguistic communication between two conceptually disparate languages, traditions, or cultures is often problematic and even unattainable. According to Wang's presuppositional interpretation of incommensurability, the real secret of incommensurability lies in the ontological set-ups of two competing presuppositional languages. This book provides many original contributions to the discussion of incommensurability and related issues in philosophy and offers valuable insights to scholars in other fields, such as anthropology, communication, linguistics, scientific education, and cultural studies.
Xinli Wang is Professor of Philosophy at Juniata College, Pennsylvania, USA.
