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Word and World - Practice and the Foundations of Language (Paperback, New)
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Word and World - Practice and the Foundations of Language (Paperback, New)
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This important book proposes a new account of the nature of
language, founded upon an original interpretation of Wittgenstein.
The authors deny the existence of a direct referential relationship
between words and things. Rather, the link between language and
world is a two-stage one, in which meaning is used and in which a
natural language should be understood as fundamentally a collection
of socially devised and maintained practices. Arguing against the
philosophical mainstream descending from Frege and Russell to
Quine, Davidson, Dummett, McDowell, Evans, Putnam, Kripke and
others, the authors demonstrate that discarding the notion of
reference does not entail relativism or semantic nihilism. A
provocative re-examination of the interrelations of language and
social practice, this book will interest not only philosophers of
language but also linguists, psycholinguists, students of
communication and all those concerned with the nature and
acquisition of human linguistic capacities.
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