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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... speaking as a recycling of demolition material stocked in our mind. Fritz Mauthner, a German-speaking Bohemian philosopher, and Ludwig Wittgenstein after him, compared languages to cities, which grow gradually, room after room, window ...
... speaking as a recycling of demolition material stocked in our mind. Fritz Mauthner, a German-speaking Bohemian philosopher, and Ludwig Wittgenstein after him, compared languages to cities, which grow gradually, room after room, window ...
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... speaking and acting linguistically. Art is the word we use for techniques that develop from spontaneous actions, which can be summarized into norms and handed down through teaching and example in order to perfect the natural abilities ...
... speaking and acting linguistically. Art is the word we use for techniques that develop from spontaneous actions, which can be summarized into norms and handed down through teaching and example in order to perfect the natural abilities ...
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... speaking impairments and aphasia, sever, sometimes radically, the relation between the subject and his environment. Language philosophy is therefore inseparable from a theory ofthe mind, and the critique oflanguage is an essential tool ...
... speaking impairments and aphasia, sever, sometimes radically, the relation between the subject and his environment. Language philosophy is therefore inseparable from a theory ofthe mind, and the critique oflanguage is an essential tool ...
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... speaking as a cooperative action among interlocutors in a given situation. In a broader sense, pragmatics is a view of language that has a relatively long philosophical history, as we shall see (see 7.5 below). In a narrower ...
... speaking as a cooperative action among interlocutors in a given situation. In a broader sense, pragmatics is a view of language that has a relatively long philosophical history, as we shall see (see 7.5 below). In a narrower ...
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... speak” (435a—c). The main novelty of Cratylus is the exposition of Socrates's instrumental theory as an alternative to the two extremes of naturalism (which merges reality and language) and skepsis (which leads to incommunicability) ...
... speak” (435a—c). The main novelty of Cratylus is the exposition of Socrates's instrumental theory as an alternative to the two extremes of naturalism (which merges reality and language) and skepsis (which leads to incommunicability) ...
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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