Language

This book, originally published in 1989 discusses an issue central to all philosophical argument - the relation between persuasion and truth. The techniques of persuasion are indirect and not always fully transparent. Whether philosophers and...

One of the greatest philosophical works of all time, in a new translation for the twenty-first century'The final philosopher to perform the most profound surgery on philosophy ... concise yet exceptionally clear' Ai WeiweiWidely regarded as one of the...

In this new book, Walker Zupp demonstrates the need to reevaluate the connection between Ludwig Wittgenstein�s philosophy and the extraordinary life that he led, and how the best way to do this, ironically, is by examining novels whose central characters...

Das Lehrbuch führt in aktuelle Fragen, Debatten und Ansätze der gegenwärtigen, analytischen Sprachphilosophie ein und zeigt, welchen Einfluss die Sprachphilosophie auf andere Gebiete der Philosophie hat. Ein besonderes Augenmerk liegt dabei auf der...

The Oxford Handbook of Contemporary Philosophy of Language introduces readers to the main issues and theories in the philosophy of language as currently practised. Written by leading researchers and covering the central topics in the contemporary...

What sorts of alien languages can there be? And might reality be such that some alien language represents reality better than familiar languages do? Alien languages are here languages that use different kinds of semantic tools than any familiar languages...

Hiding in Plain Sight is a captivating exploration of the intricate relationship between language and the concealed order of human existence. Drawing on existentialist philosophy, literature, poetry, etymology and historical analysis, it delves into the...

This book presents the author's personal overview of Speech Prosody, and in particular the different areas in which he has been especially interested over the last few decades. These include the acoustics of speech prosody, prosodic transcription, the...

Bounded Meaninginvestigates the dynamics of interpretation:how and why the interpretation of the building blocks of human language is sensitive, notjust to the context in which an expression is used, but also to the expression's linguisticenvironment...

Austinian Themes offers a reconstruction of philosophical views on several themes developed by J. L. Austin. Exploring Austin's work in detail through a series of thematically organized chapters, Marina Sbisà draws on both published work as well as...

Wie ist es möglich, dass im Erklingen einer komplexen Folge von Lauten ein Sinn offenbar wird, der mit der lautenden Gestalt selbst scheinbar wenig bis gar nichts zu tun hat? Das Buch nähert sich der Frage nach der Seinsweise des gesprochenen Wortes auf...