|
Books > Social sciences > Psychology > Cognition & cognitive psychology
|
Buy Now
Words and Thoughts - Subsentences, Ellipsis, and the Philosophy of Language (Hardcover, New)
Loot Price: R1,538
Discovery Miles 15 380
|
|
|
Words and Thoughts - Subsentences, Ellipsis, and the Philosophy of Language (Hardcover, New)
Expected to ship within 10 - 15 working days
|
It is a near truism of philosophy of language that sentences are
prior to words. Sentences, it is said, are what we believe, assert,
and argue for; uses of them constitute our evidence in semantics;
only they stand in inferential relations, and are true or false.
Sentences are, indeed, the only things that fundamentally have
meaning. Does this near truism really hold of human languages?
Robert Stainton, drawing on a wide body of evidence, argues
forcefully that speakers can and do use mere words, not sentences,
to communicate complete thoughts. He then considers the
implications of this empirical result for language-thought
relations, various doctrines of sentence primacy, and the
semantics-pragmatics boundary. The book is important both for its
philosophical and empirical claims, and for the methodology
employed. Stainton illustrates how the methods and detailed results
of the various cognitive sciences can bear on central issues in
philosophy of language. At the same time, he applies philosophical
distinctions with subtlety and care, to show that arguments which
seemingly support the primacy of sentences do not really do so. The
result is a paradigm example of The New Philosophy of Language: a
rich melding of empirical work with traditional philosophy of
language.
General
Is the information for this product incomplete, wrong or inappropriate?
Let us know about it.
Does this product have an incorrect or missing image?
Send us a new image.
Is this product missing categories?
Add more categories.
Review This Product
No reviews yet - be the first to create one!
|
You might also like..
|
Email address subscribed successfully.
A activation email has been sent to you.
Please click the link in that email to activate your subscription.
Welcome to Loot.co.za!
Sign in / Register |Wishlists & Gift Vouchers |Help | Advanced search
(3)
(1)
