A History of Language PhilosophiesTheory and history combine in this book to form a coherent narrative of the debates on language and languages in the Western world, from ancient classic philosophy to the present, with a final glance at on-going discussions on language as a cognitive tool, on its bodily roots and philogenetic role. An introductory chapter reviews the epistemological areas that converge into, or contribute to, language philosophy, and discusses their methods, relations, and goals. In this context, the status of language philosophy is discussed in its relation to the sciences and the arts of language. Each chapter is followed by a list of suggested readings that refer the reader to the final bibliography. About the author: Lia Formigari, Professor Emeritus at University of Rome, La Sapienza. Her publications include: Language and Experience in XVIIth-century British Philosophy. Amsterdam & Philadelphia: J. Benjamins, 1988; Signs, Science and Politics. Philosophies of Language in Europe 1700 1830. Amsterdam & Philadelphia: J. Benjamins, 1993; La sémiotique empiriste face au kantisme. Liège: Mardaga, 1994. |
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... find his way back. Since antiquity, monetary metaphors had been used, and they were rife in the 18th century, the age ofpolitical economy, when the comparison of verbal commerce to the circulation of currency, of lies to fake coins ...
... find his way back. Since antiquity, monetary metaphors had been used, and they were rife in the 18th century, the age ofpolitical economy, when the comparison of verbal commerce to the circulation of currency, of lies to fake coins ...
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... find out what makes language a special system within the mass of semiological data” (Saussure 1966: 16). The boundaries of semiotics and its relations with linguistics have been much debated, especially in the 19605. Some authors tended ...
... find out what makes language a special system within the mass of semiological data” (Saussure 1966: 16). The boundaries of semiotics and its relations with linguistics have been much debated, especially in the 19605. Some authors tended ...
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... find any decisive evidence of such a notion in the obscure and fragmentary texts by Heraclitus that have come down to us. The opposite (conventionalist) position, expressed by Hermogenes in the dialogue, has been ascribed to the school ...
... find any decisive evidence of such a notion in the obscure and fragmentary texts by Heraclitus that have come down to us. The opposite (conventionalist) position, expressed by Hermogenes in the dialogue, has been ascribed to the school ...
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... Stoic doctrine in the light oflater evolution, we might find here the roots of the dichotomy between scientific and technical grammar. The grammatical observations found in dialectics are not. 26 A History of Language Philosophies.
... Stoic doctrine in the light oflater evolution, we might find here the roots of the dichotomy between scientific and technical grammar. The grammatical observations found in dialectics are not. 26 A History of Language Philosophies.
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... find it in the deb ate on the mind of animals in the Hellenistic Age; in Plotinus's philosophy (see 2.5 below), where the uttered word is the image of internal speech, which in turn is the image of the. 28 A History of Language ...
... find it in the deb ate on the mind of animals in the Hellenistic Age; in Plotinus's philosophy (see 2.5 below), where the uttered word is the image of internal speech, which in turn is the image of the. 28 A History of Language ...
Contents
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4 Philosophy of language from Boethius to Locke | 57 |
5 Language and philosophy from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment | 83 |
6 Languages peoples and nations | 129 |
7 Language and philosophy at the turn of the 19th century | 149 |
8 Conclusion | 189 |
Bibliography | 207 |
Author index | 237 |
Subject index | 245 |
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