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The Ethics of Silence - An Interdisciplinary Case Analysis Approach (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed.... The Ethics of Silence - An Interdisciplinary Case Analysis Approach (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2017)
Nancy Billias, Sivaram Vemuri
R997 Discovery Miles 9 970 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This volume is an interdisciplinary exploration of the modalities, meanings, and practices of silence in contemporary social discourse. How is silence treated in different cultures? In a globalized world, how is silence managed between and across cultures? Co-authored by a philosopher and an economist, the text draws on interviews with scholars and practitioners in fields as diverse as marine biology and African American history. International case studies are presented in operational contexts from the Black Lives Matter movement to the creation of art installations to the struggles of transgender people in Southeast Asia. The authors examine the relationship between ethics and silence, and suggest strategies to transform social praxis through greater attention to silence.

Sensory Perceptions in Language, Embodiment and Epistemology (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2018): Annalisa Baicchi, Remi Digonnet, Jodi... Sensory Perceptions in Language, Embodiment and Epistemology (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2018)
Annalisa Baicchi, Remi Digonnet, Jodi L. Sandford
R2,716 Discovery Miles 27 160 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The book illustrates how the human ability to adapt to the environment and interact with it can explain our linguistic representation of the world as constrained by our bodies and sensory perception. The different chapters discuss philosophical, scientific, and linguistic perspectives on embodiment and body perception, highlighting the core mechanisms humans employ to acquire knowledge of reality. These processes are based on sensory experience and interaction through communication.

Linguistic and Psycholinguistic Approaches on Implicatures and Presuppositions (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original... Linguistic and Psycholinguistic Approaches on Implicatures and Presuppositions (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2017)
Salvatore Pistoia Reda, Filippo Domaneschi
R3,212 Discovery Miles 32 120 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book discusses developments in the study of implicatures and presuppositions, drawing on recent linguistic and psycholinguistic literature. It provides original discussions of specific formal aspects of the theoretical reconstruction of these phenomena. The authors offer innovative experimental analyses in which crucial processing questions are addressed, and new experimental methodologies are introduced. The result is an advanced debate featuring broad empirical coverage of the issues, as well as an informed discussion of the connections between a Compositional Semantics and a Pragmatic Theory of Implicit Communication, in light of the empirical data coming from Experimental Semantics and Pragmatics. This book will be a worthwhile read for those with interests in both the formal and methodological aspects of these arguments.

Pragmatics and Law - Practical and Theoretical Perspectives (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2017):... Pragmatics and Law - Practical and Theoretical Perspectives (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2017)
Francesca Poggi, Alessandro Capone
R4,547 Discovery Miles 45 470 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This volume is the second part of a project which hosts an interdisciplinary discussion about the relationship among law and language, legal practice and ordinary conversation, legal philosophy and the linguistics sciences. An international group of authors, from cognitive science, philosophy of language and philosophy of law question about how legal theory and pragmatics can enrich each other. In particular, the first part is devoted to the analysis of how pragmatics can solve problems related to legal theory: What can pragmatics teach about the concept of law and its relationship with moral, and, in particular, about the eternal dispute between legal positivism and legal naturalism? What can pragmatics teach about the concept of law and/or legal disagreements? The second part is focused on legal adjudication: it aims to construct a pragmatic apparatus appropriate to legal trial and/or to test the tenure of the traditional pragmatics tools in the field. The authors face questions such as: Which interesting pragmatic features emerge from legal adjudication? What pragmatic theories are better suited to account for the practice of judgment or its particular aspects (such as the testimony or the binding force of legal precedents)? Which pragmatic and socio-linguistic problems are highlighted by this practice?

Pragmemes and Theories of Language Use (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2016): Keith Allan, Alessandro... Pragmemes and Theories of Language Use (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2016)
Keith Allan, Alessandro Capone, Istvan Kecskes
R5,451 Discovery Miles 54 510 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This volume offers recent developments in pragmatics and adjacent territories of investigation, including important new concepts such as the pragmatic act and the pragmeme, and combines developments in neighboring disciplines in an integrative holistic pragmatic approach. The young science of pragmatics has, from its inception, differentiated itself from neighboring fields in the humanities, especially the disciplines dealing with language and those focusing on the social and anthropological aspects of human behavior, by focusing on the language user in his or her societal environment.This collection of papers continues that emphasis on language use, and pragmatic acts in their context. The editors and contributors share a perspective that essentially considers language as a system for communication and wants to look at language from a societal perspective, and accept the view that acts of interpretation are essentially embedded in culture. In an interdisciplinary approach, some authors explore connections with social theory, in particular sociology or socio-linguistics, some offer a political stance (critical discourse analysis), others explore connections with philosophy and philosophy of language, and several papers address problems in theoretical pragmatics.

The Mirror of Information in Early Modern England - John Wilkins and the Universal Character (Paperback, Softcover reprint of... The Mirror of Information in Early Modern England - John Wilkins and the Universal Character (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2017)
James Dougal Fleming
R3,200 Discovery Miles 32 000 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book examines the seventeenth-century project for a "real" or "universal" character: a scientific and objective code. Focusing on the Essay towards a real character, and a philosophical language (1668) of the polymath John Wilkins, Fleming provides a detailed explanation of how a real character actually was supposed to work. He argues that the period movement should not be understood as a curious episode in the history of language, but as an illuminating avatar of information technology. A non-oral code, supposedly amounting to a script of things, the character was to support scientific discourse through a universal database, in alignment with cosmic truths. In all these ways, J.D. Fleming argues, the world of the character bears phenomenological comparison to the world of modern digital information-what has been called the infosphere.

Language and Cognitive Structures of Emotion (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2016): Prakash Mondal Language and Cognitive Structures of Emotion (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2016)
Prakash Mondal
R2,023 Discovery Miles 20 230 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book examines linguistic expressions of emotion in intensional contexts and offers a formally elegant account of the relationship between language and emotion. The author presents a compelling case for the view that there exist, contrary to popular belief, logical universals at the intersection of language and emotive content. This book shows that emotive structures in the mind that are widely assumed to be not only subjectively or socio-culturally variable but also irrelevant to a general theory of cognition offer an unusually suitable ground for a formal theory of emotive representations, allowing for surprising logical and cognitive consequences for a theory of cognition. Challenging mainstream assumptions in cognitive science and in linguistics, this book will appeal to linguists, philosophers of the mind, linguistic anthropologists, psychologists and cognitive scientists of all persuasions.

Philosophy, Dreaming and the Literary Imagination (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2016): Michaela... Philosophy, Dreaming and the Literary Imagination (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2016)
Michaela Schrage-Fruh
R1,694 Discovery Miles 16 940 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book explores the intersections between dreaming and the literary imagination, in light of the findings of recent neurocognitive and empirical research, with the aim to lay a groundwork for an empirically informed aesthetics of dreaming. Drawing on perspectives from literary theory, philosophy of mind and dream research, this study investigates dreaming in relation to creativity and waking states of imagination such as writing and reading stories. Exploring the similarities and differences between the 'language' of dreams and the language of literature, it analyses the strategies employed by writers to create a sense of dream in literary fiction as well as the genres most conducive to this endeavour. The book closes with three case studies focusing on texts by Kazuo Ishiguro, Clare Boylan and John Banville to illustrate the diverse ways in which writers achieve to 'translate' the experience and 'language' of the dream.

Narration as Argument (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2017): Paula Olmos Narration as Argument (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2017)
Paula Olmos
R2,957 Discovery Miles 29 570 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book presents reflections on the relationship between narratives and argumentative discourse. It focuses on their functional and structural similarities or dissimilarities, and offers diverse perspectives and conceptual tools for analyzing the narratives' potential power for justification, explanation and persuasion. Divided into two sections, the first Part, under the title "Narratives as Sources of Knowledge and Argument", includes five chapters addressing rather general, theoretical and characteristically philosophical issues related to the argumentative analysis and understanding of narratives. We may perceive here how scholars in Argumentation Theory have recently approached certain topics that have a close connection with mainstream discussions in epistemology and the cognitive sciences about the justificatory potential of narratives. The second Part, entitled "Argumentative Narratives in Context", brings us six more chapters that concentrate on either particular functions played by argumentatively-oriented narratives or particular practices that may benefit from the use of special kinds of narratives. Here the focus is either on the detailed analysis of contextualized examples of narratives with argumentative qualities or on the careful understanding of the particular demands of certain well-defined situated activities, as diverse as scientific theorizing or war policing, that may be satisfied by certain uses of narrative discourse.

Epistemic Reasons, Norms and Goals (Paperback): Martin Grajner, Pedro Schmechtig Epistemic Reasons, Norms and Goals (Paperback)
Martin Grajner, Pedro Schmechtig
R1,097 R899 Discovery Miles 8 990 Save R198 (18%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

In recent years, questions about epistemic reasons, norms and goals have seen an upsurge of interest. The present volume brings together eighteen essays by established and upcoming philosophers in the field. The contributions are arranged into four sections: (1) epistemic reasons, (2) epistemic norms, (3) epistemic consequentialism and (4) epistemic goals and values. The volume is key reading for researchers interested in epistemic normativity.

Sourcebook in the History of Philosophy of Language - Primary source texts from the Pre-Socratics to Mill (Paperback, Softcover... Sourcebook in the History of Philosophy of Language - Primary source texts from the Pre-Socratics to Mill (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2017)
Margaret Cameron, Benjamin Hill, Robert J. Stainton
R4,715 Discovery Miles 47 150 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

For the first time in English, this anthology offers a comprehensive selection of primary sources in the history of philosophy of language. Beginning with a detailed introduction contextualizing the subject, the editors draw out recurring themes, including the origin of language, the role of nature and convention in fixing form and meaning, language acquisition, ideal languages, varieties of meanings, language as a tool, and the nexus of language and thought, linking them to representative texts. The handbook moves on to offer seminal contributions from philosophers ranging from the pre-Socratics up to John Stuart Mill, preceding each major historical section with its own introductory assessment. With all of the most relevant primary texts on the philosophy of language included, covering well over two millennia, this judicious, and generous, selection of source material will be an indispensable research tool for historians of philosophy, as well as for philosophers of language, in the twenty-first century. A vital tool for researchers and contemporary philosophers, it will be a touchstone for much further research, with coverage of a long and varied tradition that will benefit today's scholars and enhance their awareness of earlier contributions to the field.

Non-Metaphysical Theology After Heidegger (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2016): Peter S Dillard Non-Metaphysical Theology After Heidegger (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2016)
Peter S Dillard
R2,013 Discovery Miles 20 130 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Using Martin Heidegger's later philosophy as his springboard, Peter S. Dillard provides a radical reorientation of contemporary Christian theology. From Heidegger's initially obscure texts concerning the holy, the gods, and the last god, Dillard extracts two possible non-metaphysical theologies: a theology of Streit and a theology of Gelassenheit. Both theologies promise to avoid metaphysical antinomies that traditionally hinder theology. After describing the strengths and weaknesses of each non-metaphysical theology, Dillard develops a Gelassenheit theology that ascribes a definite phenomenology to the human encounter with divinity. This Gelassenheit theology also explains how this divinity can guide human action in concrete situations, remain deeply consonant with Christian beliefs in the Incarnation and the Trinity, and shed light on the Eucharist and Religious Vocations. Seminal ideas from Rudolf Otto and Ludwig Wittgenstein are applied at key points. Dillard concludes by encouraging others to develop an opposing Streit theology within the non-metaphysical, Heidegerrian framework he presents.

A Hermeneutic Approach to Gender and Other Social Identities (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2016):... A Hermeneutic Approach to Gender and Other Social Identities (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2016)
Lauren Swayne Barthold
R1,981 Discovery Miles 19 810 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book draws on the hermeneutics of Hans-Georg Gadamer to inform a feminist perspective of social identities. Lauren Swayne Barthold moves beyond answers that either defend the objective nature of identities or dismiss their significance altogether. Building on the work of both hermeneutic and non-hermeneutic feminist theorists of identity, she asserts the relevance of concepts like horizon, coherence, dialogue, play, application, and festival for developing a theory of identity. This volume argues that as intersubjective interpretations, social identities are vital ways of fostering meaning and connection with others. Barthold also demonstrates how a hermeneutic approach to social identities can provide critiques of and resistance to identity-based oppression.

Habermas and Ricoeur's Depth Hermeneutics - From Psychoanalysis to a Critical Human Science (Paperback, Softcover reprint... Habermas and Ricoeur's Depth Hermeneutics - From Psychoanalysis to a Critical Human Science (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2016)
Vinicio Busacchi
R1,922 Discovery Miles 19 220 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book presents a critical and systematic study of the possibility to consider and practice Freud's psychoanalysis as a form of depth hermeneutics. It contributes to a screening of the possibility of a hermeneutical interpretation of psychoanalysis, particularly with respect to the therapeutic practice. The book is an investigation into the philosophical implications of the hermeneutical re-reading of psychoanalysis and clarifies the real speculative and theoretical potential behind the dialectic of hermeneutics and psychoanalysis. It examines two themes which, so far, have remained unclarified and unexplored in their potentiality: firstly, at the level of a construction of a procedural model for the human and social sciences, as well as for philosophy, and, secondly, at the level of a philosophy of the human being able to subsume and express the biological and natural dimension of human identity as well as its historical narrative and social identity.

Understanding Pornographic Fiction - Sex, Violence, and Self-Deception (Paperback, 1st ed. 2015): Charles Nussbaum Understanding Pornographic Fiction - Sex, Violence, and Self-Deception (Paperback, 1st ed. 2015)
Charles Nussbaum
R1,557 Discovery Miles 15 570 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This work defends two main theses. First, modern Western pornographic fiction functions as a self-deceptive vehicle for sexual or blood-lustful arousal; and second, that its emergence owes as much to Puritan Protestantism and its inner- or this-worldly asceticism as does the emergence of modern rationalized capitalism.

The Non-Reificatory Approach to Belief (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2017): Richard Floyd The Non-Reificatory Approach to Belief (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2017)
Richard Floyd
R3,233 Discovery Miles 32 330 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book argues against the mainstream view that we should treat propositional attitudes as internal states, suggesting that to treat beliefs as things of certain sort (i.e. to reify them) is a mistake. The reificatory view faces several problems that the non-reificatory view avoids, and it is argued the non-reificatory view is more faithful to the everyday concept of belief. There are several major reasons why it might be thought that a reificatory approach to mental states is nevertheless unavoidable, but this book attempts to show that none of these reasons is at all convincing; in each case, the evidence is consistent with a non-reificatory view. Having argued that the popularity of the reificatory view is unjustified, the author examines history of psychology and philosophy of mind, and the structure of psychological language, in order to show that this popularity is quite understandable, but mistaken nonetheless.

Toward a Phenomenology of Addiction: Embodiment, Technology, Transcendence (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st... Toward a Phenomenology of Addiction: Embodiment, Technology, Transcendence (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2017)
Frank Schalow
R3,545 Discovery Miles 35 450 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book addresses an epidemic that has developed on a global scale, and, which under the heading of "addiction," presents a new narrative about the travails of the human predicament. The book introduces phenomenological motifs, such as desire, embodiment, and temporality, to uncover the existential roots of addiction, and develops Martin Heidegger's insights into technology to uncover the challenge of becoming a self within the impulsiveness and depersonalization of our digital age. By charting a new path of philosophical inquiry, the book allows a pervasive, cultural phenomenon, ordinarily reserved to psychology, to speak as a referendum about the danger which technology poses to us on a daily basis. In this regard, addiction ceases to be merely a clinical malady, and instead becomes a "signpost" to exposing a hidden danger posed by the assimilation of our culture within a technological framework.

Hermeneutics and the Human Sciences - Essays on Language, Action and Interpretation (Hardcover): Paul Ricoeur Hermeneutics and the Human Sciences - Essays on Language, Action and Interpretation (Hardcover)
Paul Ricoeur; Edited by John B. Thompson
R2,253 Discovery Miles 22 530 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Collected and translated by John B. Thompson, this collection of essays by Paul Ricoeur includes many that had never appeared in English before the volume's publication in 1981. As comprehensive as it is illuminating, this lucid introduction to Ricoeur's prolific contributions to sociological theory features his more recent writings on the history of hermeneutics, its central themes and issues, his own constructive position and its implications for sociology, psychoanalysis and history. Presented in a fresh twenty-first-century series livery, and including a specially commissioned preface written by Charles Taylor, illuminating its enduring importance and relevance to philosophical enquiry, this classic work has been revived for a new generation of readers.

Theories of Intensionality - A Critical Survey (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2016): David Parsons Theories of Intensionality - A Critical Survey (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2016)
David Parsons
R2,957 Discovery Miles 29 570 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book offers a comprehensive primer for the study of intensionality. It explores and assesses those key theories of intensionality which have been developed in the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. Each of the examined theories is tested as to whether it can account for the problems associated with (A) the intersubstitution salva veritate of co-extensional expressions, and (B) existential generalisation. All of these theories are subsequently compared so as to determine which of them comes closest to successfully solving these problems. The book examines four kinds of intensionalist approaches: the Fregean approach (including Church's formalisation of Frege's theory); the possible-worlds approaches of Carnap, Montague and Cresswell; the theory of properties relations and propositions devised by Bealer; and the Meinongian approaches put forward by Zalta and Priest. The book also proposes an alternative to intensionalism: sententialism. Sententialists argue that the problems of intensionality could be solved by appealing to linguistic items (usually sentences) rather than intensional entities. Drawing on the works of Quine, Davidson, Scheffler and R. M. Martin, it explores the viability and value of sententialism as an alternative to intensionalism.

The Pragmatics of Indirect Reports - Socio-philosophical Considerations (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed.... The Pragmatics of Indirect Reports - Socio-philosophical Considerations (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2016)
Alessandro Capone
R2,690 Discovery Miles 26 900 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This monograph on indirect reports offers insights on the semantics/pragmatics interface and a refinement of the notion of explicature. The volume is written in an engaging style and guides the reader through the theoretical problems and their ramifications. The thorniest problem in the study of indirect reports is their polyphonic nature, and how the listener distinguishes between the reporter's voice and the original speaker's voice, either by contextual clues or, in the absence of such clues, by resorting to pragmatic principles. The introductory chapter discusses the main issues that will be addressed in the volume. The next chapters focus on the various aspects of indirect reports, covering both theory and practical applications.

Argumentation and Language - Linguistic, Cognitive and Discursive Explorations (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2018): Steve Oswald, Thierry... Argumentation and Language - Linguistic, Cognitive and Discursive Explorations (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2018)
Steve Oswald, Thierry Herman, Jerome Jacquin
R4,333 Discovery Miles 43 330 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This volume focuses on the role language plays at all levels of the argumentation process. It explores the effects that specific linguistic choices may have in the production and the reception of arguments and in doing so, it moves beyond the first, necessary, descriptive stance provided by current literature on the topic. Each chapter provides an original take illuminating one or more of the following three issues: the range of linguistic resources language users draw on as they argue; how cognitive processes of meaning construction may influence argumentative practices; and which discursive devices can be used to fulfil a number of argumentative goals. The volume includes theoretical and empirical or applied stances, providing the reader both with state-of-the-art reflections on the relationship between argumentation and language, and with concrete examples of how this relationship plays out in naturally occurring argumentative practices, such as classroom interaction, and political, parliamentary or journalistic discourse. This is a very original, timely and welcome contribution to the study of argumentation conducted with the tools of the language sciences. The collection of papers relevantly tackles key linguistic, discursive and cognitive aspects of argumentative practices whose treatment is underrepresented in mainstream argumentation studies by offering new and exciting linguistically-grounded theoretical accounts. As such, the volume testifies both to the vigour of the linguistic current within the discipline and to the high standards of scholarly commitment and quality that the younger generation is pushing forward. Without question, this book marks an important milestone in the relationships between linguistics and argumentation theory. Christian Plantin, Professor Emeritus

Truth in Fiction - Rethinking its Logic (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2018): John Woods Truth in Fiction - Rethinking its Logic (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2018)
John Woods
R3,941 Discovery Miles 39 410 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This monograph examines truth in fiction by applying the techniques of a naturalized logic of human cognitive practices. The author structures his project around two focal questions. What would it take to write a book about truth in literary discourse with reasonable promise of getting it right? What would it take to write a book about truth in fiction as true to the facts of lived literary experience as objectivity allows? It is argued that the most semantically distinctive feature of the sentences of fiction is that they areunambiguously true and false together. It is true that Sherlock Holmes lived at 221B Baker Street and also concurrently false that he did. A second distinctive feature of fiction is that the reader at large knows of this inconsistency and isn't in the least cognitively molested by it. Why, it is asked, would this be so? What would explain it? Two answers are developed. According to the no-contradiction thesis, the semantically tangled sentences of fiction are indeed logically inconsistent but not logically contradictory. According to the no-bother thesis, if the inconsistencies of fiction were contradictory, a properly contrived logic for the rational management of inconsistency would explain why readers at large are not thrown off cognitive stride by their embrace of those contradictions. As developed here, the account of fiction suggests the presence of an underlying three - or four-valued dialethic logic. The author shows this to be a mistaken impression. There are only two truth-values in his logic of fiction. The naturalized logic of Truth in Fiction jettisons some of the standard assumptions and analytical tools of contemporary philosophy, chiefly because the neurotypical linguistic and cognitive behaviour of humanity at large is at variance with them. Using the resources of a causal response epistemology in tandem with the naturalized logic, the theory produced here is data-driven, empirically sensitive, and open to a circumspect collaboration with the empirical sciences of language and cognition.

Ontology and Phenomenology of Speech - An Existential Theory of Speech (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2018): Marklen E. Konurbaev Ontology and Phenomenology of Speech - An Existential Theory of Speech (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2018)
Marklen E. Konurbaev
R2,959 Discovery Miles 29 590 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book applies phenomenological methodology to examine the transformations of messages as they pass from the mind to the linear world of human speech, and then back again. Rapid development of linguistic science in the second half of the 20th century, and cognitive science in the beginning of the 21st century has brought us through various stages of natural human language analysis and comprehension - from deep structures, transformational grammar and behaviorism to cognitive linguistics, theory of encapsulation, and mentalism. Thus, drawing upon new developments in cognitive science, philosophy and hermeneutics, the author reveals how to obtain the real vision of life lurking behind the spoken word. Applying methodology introduced by Edmund Husserl and developed by Martin Heidegger, the author examines how we can see the 'living' and dynamic essence of speech hidden in the world of linear linguistic strings and casual utterances. This uniquely researched work will be a valuable resource for students and scholars of cognitive stylistics, pragmatics and the psychology of language.

Logical Form - Between Logic and Natural Language (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2018): Andrea Iacona Logical Form - Between Logic and Natural Language (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2018)
Andrea Iacona
R2,703 Discovery Miles 27 030 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Logical form has always been a prime concern for philosophers belonging to the analytic tradition. For at least one century, the study of logical form has been widely adopted as a method of investigation, relying on its capacity to reveal the structure of thoughts or the constitution of facts. This book focuses on the very idea of logical form, which is directly relevant to any principled reflection on that method. Its central thesis is that there is no such thing as a correct answer to the question of what is logical form: two significantly different notions of logical form are needed to fulfill two major theoretical roles that pertain respectively to logic and to semantics. This thesis has a negative and a positive side. The negative side is that a deeply rooted presumption about logical form turns out to be overly optimistic: there is no unique notion of logical form that can play both roles. The positive side is that the distinction between two notions of logical form, once properly spelled out, sheds light on some fundamental issues concerning the relation between logic and language.

Semantics, Pragmatics and Meaning Revisited - The Case of Conditionals (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2018): Magdalena Sztencel Semantics, Pragmatics and Meaning Revisited - The Case of Conditionals (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2018)
Magdalena Sztencel
R2,710 Discovery Miles 27 100 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book systematically investigates what follows about meaning in language if current views on the limited, or even redundant, role of linguistic semantics are taken to their radical conclusion. Focusing on conditionals, the book defends a wholly pragmatic, wholly inferential account of meaning - one which foregrounds a reasoning subject's individual state of mind. The topics discussed in the book include conceptual content, internalism and externalism, the semantics-pragmatics distinction, meaning holism and explicit versus implicit communication. These topics and the author's analysis of conditionals will allow the reader to engage with some traditional and current research in linguistics, philosophy and psychology.

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