Philosophy of language books

The book illustrates how the human ability to adapt to the environment and interact with it can explain our linguistic...  Read More >>

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The result is an advanced debate featuring broad empirical coverage of the issues, as well as an informed discussion...  Read More >>

This work presents the structure, distribution and semantic interpretation of quantificational expressions in languages...  Read More >>

Der Mensch ist ein soziales Wesen und in viele soziale Prozesse eingebunden. Die Sozialphilosophie beschaftigt sich...  Read More >>

The problem of necessity remains one of the central issues in modern philosophy. The authors of this volume, originally...  Read More >>

Philosophical themes as diverse as language, value, mind and God are among the topics discussed in this book, originally...  Read More >>

Andreas Stokke presents a comprehensive study of the linguistic phenomenon of insincere language use, revealing...  Read More >>

This book, originally published in 1991, sets forth the assumptions about thought and language that made falsehood...  Read More >>

This book, originally published in 1987, considers how the science of linguistics creates its own objects of study....  Read More >>

This book brings together in one place David Hitchcock’s most significant published articles on reasoning and argument....  Read More >>

The papers in this collection discuss the connections between language, reality and human understanding. The complex...  Read More >>

This book explores the other side of language, where words are incoherent and meaning fails us. It argues that this...  Read More >>

This book, originally published in 1963 provides a sample of the criticisms of philosophers on the course of linguistic...  Read More >>

This book asks how we—as citizens, immigrants, activists, teachers—can counter the abuse of language in our midst....  Read More >>

A new theory of the syntax-semantics interface that relies on hierarchical orderings in language, with the English...  Read More >>

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This book develops a novel generalization of possible world semantics, called ‘world line semantics’, which recognizes...  Read More >>

This book explores the interdisciplinarity of semiotics and communication studies, comprising both theoretical explorations...  Read More >>

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Offers an examination of seven disciplines within the humanities field which underwent a fundamental transformation....  Read More >>

Explores the ways in which nineteenth-century English poetsDSTennyson, Browning, HopkinsDSresponded creatively to...  Read More >>

The book starts with a historical reconstruction of two opposing biolinguistic models: the Chomskian Biolinguistic...  Read More >>

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