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Author(s): William G. Lycan
ISBN(s): 9780415957519, 0415957516
Edition: 2
File Details: PDF, 3.11 MB
Year: 2008
Language: english
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ISBN 10: 0415957524

ISBN 13: 978-0415957526

Author: William G. Lycan

Philosophy of Language: A Contemporary Introduction introduces the student to the main issues and theories in twentieth century philosophy of language, focusing specifically on linguistic phenomena.

Topics are structured in four parts in the book. Part I, Reference and Referring Expressions, includes topics such as Russell’s Theory of Desciptions, Donnellan’s distinction, problems of anaphora, the description theory of proper names, Searle’s cluster theory, and the causal-historical theory. Part II, Theories of Meaning, surveys the competing theories of linguistic meaning and compares their various advantages and liabilities. Part III, Pragmatics and Speech Acts, introduces the basic concepts of linguistic pragmatics, includes a detailed discussion of the problem of indirect force and surveys approaches to metaphor. Part IV, new to this edition, examines the four theories of metaphor.

Table of contents:

Introduction: meaning and reference

Part I Reference and referring

Definite descriptions

Proper names: the Description Theory

Proper names: Direct Reference and the Causal–Historical Theory

Part II: Theories of meaning

Traditional theories of meaning

“Use” theories

Psychological theories: Grice’s program

Verificationism

Truth-Condition Theories: Davidson’s program

Truth-Condition Theories: possible worlds and intensional semantics

Part III: Pragmatics and speech acts

Semantic pragmatics

Speech acts and illocutionary force

Implicative relations

Part IV: The dark side

Metaphor

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