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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... refers back to theories of meaning and understanding, and translation work is always a work of interpretation. The ancient arts and sciences of speech — dialectics and rhetoric, nowadays subsumed under the common denomination of ...
... refers back to theories of meaning and understanding, and translation work is always a work of interpretation. The ancient arts and sciences of speech — dialectics and rhetoric, nowadays subsumed under the common denomination of ...
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... refer to what they designate; the examination of their capacity to satisfy virtual truth conditions, independently of any material circumstance such as the speaker's state of mind and the pragmatic situation of the utterance. The ...
... refer to what they designate; the examination of their capacity to satisfy virtual truth conditions, independently of any material circumstance such as the speaker's state of mind and the pragmatic situation of the utterance. The ...
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... refer to things and events, and how we can know reality through names. As far as we may gather from scattered extant documents, the relation of language to reality was crucial for a number of Greek philosophers of the 6th and 5th ...
... refer to things and events, and how we can know reality through names. As far as we may gather from scattered extant documents, the relation of language to reality was crucial for a number of Greek philosophers of the 6th and 5th ...
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... referred to a name serving as subject in a proposition (Baratin & Desbordes 1981: 14). The second term (mostly translated as 'verb') indicates any sequence serving as predicate. In a controversial chapter of the Poetics (XX), Aristotle ...
... referred to a name serving as subject in a proposition (Baratin & Desbordes 1981: 14). The second term (mostly translated as 'verb') indicates any sequence serving as predicate. In a controversial chapter of the Poetics (XX), Aristotle ...
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... referred to the passage in Poetics Chap.XX where Aristotle presents an elaborate taxonomy of the parts of speech. Here, we ... refer back to an ontological content and produce a mental image of it. This is borne out, for example, by the ...
... referred to the passage in Poetics Chap.XX where Aristotle presents an elaborate taxonomy of the parts of speech. Here, we ... refer back to an ontological content and produce a mental image of it. This is borne out, for example, by the ...
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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