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Word and World - Practice and the Foundations of Language (Paperback, New) Loot Price: R1,047
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Word and World - Practice and the Foundations of Language (Paperback, New): Patricia Hanna, Bernard Harrison

Word and World - Practice and the Foundations of Language (Paperback, New)

Patricia Hanna, Bernard Harrison

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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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Imprint: Cambridge UniversityPress
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Release date: December 2003
First published: 2004
Authors: Patricia Hanna • Bernard Harrison
Dimensions: 228 x 152 x 28mm (L x W x T)
Format: Paperback - Trade
Pages: 432
Edition: New
ISBN-13: 978-0-521-53744-5
Categories: Books > Language & Literature > Language & linguistics > Philosophy of language
Books > Humanities > Philosophy > Western philosophy > Modern Western philosophy, c 1600 to the present > Western philosophy, from c 1900 - > Analytical & linguistic philosophy
Books > Philosophy > Western philosophy > Modern Western philosophy, c 1600 to the present > Western philosophy, from c 1900 - > Analytical & linguistic philosophy
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LSN: 0-521-53744-4
Barcode: 9780521537445

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