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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... universal history. In the 18th century, philosophers compared languages to archives where the memory ofhumankind is preserved, to tracks left by a man in the desert, which he uses to find his way back. Since antiquity, monetary ...
... universal history. In the 18th century, philosophers compared languages to archives where the memory ofhumankind is preserved, to tracks left by a man in the desert, which he uses to find his way back. Since antiquity, monetary ...
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... universal grammar, competence, I-language, and which I have described above as an abstract system of principles) and a linguistics of the external language, i.e., the actual production of sentences and their properties (performance, E ...
... universal grammar, competence, I-language, and which I have described above as an abstract system of principles) and a linguistics of the external language, i.e., the actual production of sentences and their properties (performance, E ...
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... universal features of languages. From ancient grammarians to the most recent developments of generative grammar, the study of the systematic regularities of language has always had general theoretical implications, such as the question ...
... universal features of languages. From ancient grammarians to the most recent developments of generative grammar, the study of the systematic regularities of language has always had general theoretical implications, such as the question ...
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... universal mental language, if we adopt more or less radical forms of linguistic relativism and stress the importance language has in influencing our approach to reality. The most extreme case from this perspective is that of a wholly ...
... universal mental language, if we adopt more or less radical forms of linguistic relativism and stress the importance language has in influencing our approach to reality. The most extreme case from this perspective is that of a wholly ...
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... universal pass-partout that will open the doors of every philosophical closet. This change has expanded the epistemic potential of philosophy to an extent it is still difficult to assess. For language theories, too, the. A map of the area ...
... universal pass-partout that will open the doors of every philosophical closet. This change has expanded the epistemic potential of philosophy to an extent it is still difficult to assess. For language theories, too, the. A map of the area ...
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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