Exercise of Power in Communication
This book explores the various choices speakers or communicators make when expressing power...
EAN: 9781349502271
Inferentialism
In this study two strands of inferentialism are brought together: the philosophical doctrine of...
EAN: 9781349497553
Language, Mind and Computation
This book explores how and in what ways the relationship between language, mind and computation...
EAN: 9781349496785
Event of Style in Literature
The Event of Style in Literature brings discussions about the question of style up-to-date by...
EAN: 9781349490950
Poetry and Dialogism
These essays extend an ongoing conversation on dialogic qualities of poetry by positing various...
EAN: 9781349486342
Naming, Necessity and More
Saul Kripke's Naming and Necessity was one of the most influential philosophical works of the...
EAN: 9781349486243
Semantic Under-determinacy and Communication
Combining a fresh, previously unexplored view of the subject with a detailed overview of the past...
EAN: 9781349485345
Rules and Dispositions in Language Use
Rules and Dispositions in Language Use explains how correct language use is governed by both...
EAN: 9781349471256
Varieties of Tone
In clear and lively prose that avoids jargon, the author carefully and systematically examines...
EAN: 9781349442591
Religious Language
An original and accessible discussion of the nature of religious language that draws on the...
EAN: 9781349441389
Victor Dudman's Grammar and Semantics
Victor Dudman's revolutionary English Grammar brings grammar and logic together by conceiving...
EAN: 9781349440092
Wittgenstein's Ethical Thought
Exploring the ethical dimension of Wittgenstein's thought, Iczkovits challenges the view that...
EAN: 9781349439140
Uncertainty and Communication
Sharing a commitment to the theory of communication to Habermas' Theory of Communicative Action ,...
EAN: 9781349355259
Wittgenstein and Plato
Wittgenstein was a faithful and passionate reader of Plato's Dialogues as confirmed by writings...
EAN: 9781349348190
Concept of Truth
This book addresses the contemporary disillusion with truth, manifest in sceptical relativism....
EAN: 9781349334247
Standardization, Ideology and Linguistics
The authors explore some of the ways in which standardization, ideology and linguistics are...
EAN: 9781349333943
Action and Existence
Since the pioneering work of Donald Davidson on action, many philosophers have taken critical...
EAN: 9781349333820
Central Banks and Coded Language
This book explores implications of the modern view of central banks rising from the proposition...
EAN: 9781349312672
Bourdieu, Language and the Media
This book engages with key theoretical and analytical issues in the field of media, communication...
EAN: 9781349307623
Intelligent Mind
The Intelligent Mind conceives the psychological reality of thought and language, explaining how...
EAN: 9781349575985
Truth without Predication
This book contains an original analysis of the existential there-sentence from a...
EAN: 9781349503216
Emotions, Language and Identity on the Margins of Europe
When a word describing an emotion is said to be untranslatable, is that emotion untranslatable...
EAN: 9781349487004
Dummett on Analytical Philosophy
Dummett argues that the aim of philosophy is the analysis of thought and that, with Frege,...
EAN: 9781349486168
