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This two-volume collection showcases a wide range of modern
approaches to the philosophical study of language. Contributions
illustrate how these strands of research are interconnected and
show the importance of such a broad outlook. The aim is to throw
light upon some of the key questions in language and communication
and also to inspire, inform, and integrate a community of
researchers in philosophical linguistics. Volume one concentrates
on fundamental theoretical topics. This means considering vital
questions about what languages are and how they relate to reality,
and describing some of the key areas of thought in linguistics and
the philosophy of language. Contributors also discuss how
philosophy influences related fields such as translation,
pragmatics, and argumentation.
This two-volume collection showcases a wide range of modern
approaches to the philosophical study of language. Contributions
illustrate how these strands of research are interconnected and
show the importance of such a broad outlook. The aim is to throw
light upon some of the key questions in language and communication
and also to inspire, inform, and integrate a community of
researchers in philosophical linguistics. Volume two presents
analyses of several fundamental concepts and studies in which they
are applied empirically. These include the linguistic topics of
assertion, vagueness, and disagreement, and the philosophical
themes of belief, normativity, and thought. These chapters provide
unique insight into the role of philosophy in the contemporary
study of communication.
This book investigates the linguistic status of predication,
especially within the generative paradigm. The topics discussed
include minimalist accounts of predication, types of predication,
copular constructions, topic and focus, theticity and transitivity.
The contributions analyze constructions from a wide variety of
languages, including English, Polish, Irish, Welsh, Norwegian,
German, Arabic, Ostyak, Mongolian, Japanese and Chinese. This book
contributes to contemporary debates on understanding predication in
linguistics and in the philosophy of language.
This book investigates philosophical and formal approaches to
predication. The topics discussed include Aristotelian predication,
a conceptualist approach to predication, possible formalizations of
the notion, Fregean predicates and concepts, and Meinongian
predication. The contributions discuss the approaches proposed by
Aristotle and Frege, as well as the division of classes into a
hierarchy of orders. They reanalyze the traditional notions, and
offer new insights into predication theory. This book contributes
to contemporary debates on predication and predicates in the
philosophy of language.
The articles in this collection focus on philosophical approaches
to proper names. The issues discussed include abstract names, empty
names, naming and name-using practices, definite descriptions,
individuals, reference, designation, sense and semantics. The
contributions show the importance and lasting influence of theories
proposed by John Stuart Mill, Gottlob Frege, Bertrand Russell,
Donald Davidson, and Saul Kripke. Individual chapters assess
traditional analyses and modern controversies, and contribute to
the debate on proper names in contemporary philosophy of language.
The papers in this collection discuss broadly understood cognitive
turns in the philosophy of language, inspired by the Chomskyan
revolution in linguistics, Langacker’s and Lakoff’s Cognitive
Linguistics, but also phenomenology, Relevance Theory and Classical
Indian Philosophy. The individual texts investigate, from different
angles, the relations between philosophy of language and
linguistics, and contribute to the development of theoretical
frameworks for studying language. Most of the contributions were
presented at the first International Conference on Philosophy of
Language and Linguistics, PhiLang2009 (University of Łódź, May
2009).
This volume brings together papers on a wide spectrum of topics
within the broad area of language acquisition, stressing the
interconnections between applied and theoretical linguistics, as
well as language research methodology. These contributions in honor
of Professor Jan Majer have been grouped in two sections: language
learning, and discourse and communication. The former discusses
issues varying from aspects of first, second, and third language
acquisition, individual learner differences (i.e. gender,
attitudes, learning strategies), and second language research
methodology to the analysis of features of learner spoken language,
the role of feedback in foreign language instruction, and the
position of culture in EFL textbooks. The second part of the volume
offers a theoretical counterbalance to the applied nature of the
first one. Here, the contributions touch upon spoken and written
language analysis, language awareness, and aspects of the English
language; also, selected issues of language philosophy are
discussed. The wide range of topics covered in the publication,
authored by specialists in their respective areas, reflects
Professor Majer's academic interests and corresponds to the complex
nature of the general field the volume aims to portray.
Studies collected in this volume investigate selected issues in
contemporary philosophy of language and philosophy of literature.
Individual authors concentrate on philosophy of fiction and discuss
fictional worlds and fictional characters. They also present
different approaches to translation theory, and metaphor theory
(both classical and conceptual). Other chapters address the issues
of figurativeness and poetic language, apply the principles of
cognitive poetics to analyse different types of texts, and provide
cognitive approaches to abstraction in visual and verbal art, also
to the categories of similarity and difference in perception and
language. The analysed authors include Wallace Stevens, Rae
Armantrout, Ernest Hemingway and David Lodge.
Papers in this collection provide philosophical and linguistic
analyses of reference. The topics discussed include different types
of reference, problems of identity, indexicality, reference fixing
and descriptions. Other issues covered in individual chapters
concern events and the event-argument hypothesis, predicate
reference, definite descriptions, contextualism, types of
quantifications, faultless disagreement, vagueness, reference in
minimalism, and the reference system for coding spatial information
in Hausa. The contributions discuss the approaches proposed by
Gottlob Frege, Donald Davidson, and Saul Kripke, and contribute to
the debate on reference in contemporary philosophy of language and
linguistics.
Papers in the collection concentrate on different issues relevant
for contemporary research within semantics, such as the linguistic
and philosophical status of representations, reference theory and
indexicals, situation semantics, formal semantics, normativity of
meaning and speech acts, and different approaches to context and
contextualism. The authors investigate the links between semantics
and syntax, and between semantics, pragmatics, and speech act
theory, and demonstrate that it is possible to integrate findings
from different disciplines. Recent studies often advocate a
'pragmatic turn' in the study of meaning and context; however, the
papers in the volume show that semantics and meaning remain in the
center of research carried out within contemporary linguistics and
philosophy, especially the philosophy of language. The volume
includes contributions by: Brian Ball (St Anne's College, Oxford),
John Collins (University of East Anglia), Luis Fernandez Moreno
(Complutense University of Madrid), Chris Fox (University of
Essex), Filip Kawczynski (University of Warsaw), Katarzyna
Kijania-Placek (Jagiellonian University), Joanna Klimczyk (Polish
Academy of Sciences), Paul Livingston (University of New Mexico),
Mark Pinder (University of Bristol), Ernesto Perini-Santos
(Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais), Tabea Reiner
(Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitat, Munich), Stefan Riegelnik
(University of Zurich), Arthur Sullivan (Memorial University of
Newfoundland), Massimiliano Vignolo (University of Genoa), and
Marian Zouhar (Slovak Academy of Sciences). The volume should be of
interest to linguists, philosophers of language, and philosophers
in general.
The present volume investigates the legacy of Gottlob Frege,
Bertrand Russell and Ludwig Wittgenstein in contemporary philosophy
of language and linguistics. These philosophers inspired both the
development of analytic philosophy and various philosophical
approaches to the study of language. They have influenced technical
discussions on truth, proper names, definite descriptions,
propositions and predication, sense and reference, truth, and
philosophical and linguistic inquiries into the relations between
language, mind and the world. The studies gathered in this volume
discuss most of these issues and aim to show that the results of
this research are still of utmost importance, and that the three
philosophers have significantly contributed to the linguistic turn
in philosophy and the philosophical turn in the study of language.
The volume includes contributions by: Joachim Adler (Zurich), Maria
Cerezo (Murcia), Pawel Grabarczyk (Lodz), Arkadiusz Gutt (Lublin),
Tom Hughes (Durham), Gabriele Mras (Vienna), Carl Humphries
(Cracow), Gary Kemp (Glasgow), Siu-Fan Lee (Hong Kong), Jaroslav
Peregrin (Prague), Ulrich Reichard (Durham), Piotr Stalmaszczyk
(Lodz), Piotr Szalek (Lublin), Mieszko Talasiewicz (Warsaw).
This volume brings together papers on a wide spectrum of topics
within the broad area of language acquisition, stressing the
interconnections between applied and theoretical linguistics, as
well as language research methodology. These contributions in honor
of Professor Jan Majer have been grouped in two sections: language
learning, and discourse and communication. The former discusses
issues varying from aspects of first, second, and third language
acquisition, individual learner differences (i.e. gender,
attitudes, learning strategies), and second language research
methodology to the analysis of features of learner spoken language,
the role of feedback in foreign language instruction, and the
position of culture in EFL textbooks. The second part of the volume
offers a theoretical counterbalance to the applied nature of the
first one. Here, the contributions touch upon spoken and written
language analysis, language awareness, and aspects of the English
language; also, selected issues of language philosophy are
discussed. The wide range of topics covered in the publication,
authored by specialists in their respective areas, reflects
Professor Majer's academic interests and corresponds to the complex
nature of the general field the volume aims to portray.
Articles gathered in the volume focus on traditional and
contemporary debates within the philosophy of language, and on the
interfaces between linguistics, philosophy, and logic. The topics
of individual contributions cover such diverse issues as analytic
accounts of the a priori and implicit definitions, medieval and
contemporary theories of fallacy, game-theoretical semantics, modal
games in natural language and literary semantics, possible-world
theories and paradoxes involving structured propositions,
extensions to Dynamic Syntax, semantics of proper names,
judgement-dependence, tacit knowledge and linguistic understanding,
ontology in semantics, implicit knowledge and theory of meaning,
and many more. The multitude of topics shows that the convergence
of linguistic, philosophical, formal, and cognitive approaches
opens new research perspectives within contemporary philosophy of
language and linguistics. The volume includes contributions by
(among other authors): Luis Fernandez Moreno (Madrid), Chris Fox
(Essex), Ruth Kempson (London), Alexander Miller (Birmingham),
Arthur Sullivan (Newfoundland), Mieszko Talasiewicz (Warsaw).
Papers gathered in the two volumes investigate the complex
relations between philosophy of language and linguistics, viewed as
independent, but mutually influencing one another, disciplines.
They concentrate on the 'formal' and 'philosophical' turns in the
philosophy of language, initiated by Gottlob Frege, with further
developments associated with the work of Bertrand Russell, Ludwig
Wittgenstein, Kazimierz Ajdukiewicz, W.O.V. Quine, Richard
Montague, Pavel Tichy, Richard Rorty. The volumes bring together
contributions by philosophers, logicians and linguists,
representing different theoretical orientations but united in
outlining the common ground, necessary for further research in
philosophy of language and linguistics. The papers were submitted
and, in most cases, presented at the first International Conference
on Philosophy of Language and Linguistics, PhiLang2009, organized
by the Chair of English and General Linguistics at the University
of Lodz.
This book investigates possible common objects of inquiry in
philosophy of language and literature. The topics discussed include
proper names (analyzed from different theoretical perspectives),
fictional names, truth in fiction, ontological status and
metaphysics of fictional characters, metaphor, representation,
interpretation, and other issues connecting research in philosophy
of language with philosophy of literature. Theoretical frameworks
include Millian semantics, Fregean semantics, hybrid semantics,
realism, antirealism, and metaphorical expressivism.
The book provides philosophical interpretations of pragmatic
issues. It concentrates on well-established concepts such as
presupposition, entailment, implicature, speech acts, subsentential
speech acts, different cases of meaning as use, expressive meanings
and expressive commitments, as well as the relation between
knowledge and belief. The discussion goes beyond linguistic
investigations and offers a wide philosophical perspective.
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