Philosophy of language books

"The Logical Must is an examination of Wittgenstein's philosophy of logic, early and late, from an austere naturalistic...  Read More >>

This book investigates Chinese comprehension and treatment of the relationship between language and reality. They...  Read More >>

It's a platitude - which only a philosopher would dream of denying - that whereas words are connected to what they...  Read More >>

This collection brings together the philosophy of Gilles Deleuze and the rich tradition of American pragmatist thought,...  Read More >>

It's a platitude - which only a philosopher would dream of denying - that whereas words are connected to what they...  Read More >>

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Boris Kment takes a new approach to the study of modality that emphasises the origin of modal notions in everyday...  Read More >>

Literary scholars and poets are like intimate strangers. They owe their closeness to literature and their alienation...  Read More >>

Richard Cross provides the first full study of Duns Scotus's theory of cognition, examining his account of the processes...  Read More >>

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When a word describing an emotion is said to be untranslatable, is that emotion untranslatable also? This unique...  Read More >>

Logical pluralism is the view that different logics are equally appropriate, or equally correct. Logical relativism...  Read More >>

This book is an advanced debate on the nature of scalar implicatures, one of the most popular topics in philosophical...  Read More >>

Conventional gestures are those movements we make, such as waving hello and shaking hands, that are part of a learned,...  Read More >>

This volume brings together a selection of papers presented at the 12th International Conference on the History...  Read More >>

This book redevelops an important movement in philosophy for the first time, exploring the ways in which three of...  Read More >>

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This monograph examines the meaning and function of textuality and the aesthetic form of presentation in philosophy...  Read More >>

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This book studies the language used in criminal justice discourse as causal and inherently political, examining...  Read More >>

There are three themed parts to this book: values, ethics and emotions in the first part, epistemology, perception...  Read More >>

Published in 1776, this is a classic two-volume work on rhetorical theory by a leading figure of the Scottish Enlightenment....  Read More >>

This volume provides a challenging variety of case-studies which demonstrate how global patterns of language distribution...  Read More >>

Wittgenstein beansprucht für sich eine neue Betrachtungsweise: Er will seinen ""Standpunkt weit draußen einnehmen""...  Read More >>