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Sign Levels - Language and Its Evolutionary Antecedents (Hardcover, 2003 ed.)
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Sign Levels - Language and Its Evolutionary Antecedents (Hardcover, 2003 ed.)
Series: Philosophical Studies Series, 96
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Since the revolution in philosophic method that began about a
century ago, the focus of philosophic attention has been on
language as used both in daily conversation and in specialized
institutional activities such as science, law, and the arts. But
language is an extremely complex and varied means of communication,
and the study of it has been increasingly incorporated into such
empirical disciplines as linguistics, psycho linguistics, and
cognitive psychology. It is becoming less clear what aspects of
language remain as proper subjects of philosophical study, what are
to be "kicked upstairs" (J. L. Austin's phrase) to the sciences.
This work is a study of those logical features of language that
remain central to philosophy after completion of kicking up. It
conducts this study by describing similarities and differences
between signs at differing levels, starting with natural events as
primitive signs in the environments of their interpreters, and
proceeding to pre linguistic signaling systems, elementary forms of
language, and finally to the forms of specialized discourse used
within social institutions. The investiga tion of comparative
features requires isolating basic mental capacities that are
present in the most primitive forms of organisms capable of sign
interpretation. The problem then becomes one of tracing the
emergence from these capacities of such categories as substance,
attribute or quality, and quantity that we apply to natural
languages. The study of sign levels is thus the construction of a
genealogy of logical categories marking the develop ment of natural
languages."
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