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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... verb') indicates any sequence serving as predicate. In a controversial chapter of the Poetics (XX), Aristotle lists the parts of speech on the basis of contemporary linguistic notions: letter (i.e., the phoneme: “a letter [...] of which ...
... verb') indicates any sequence serving as predicate. In a controversial chapter of the Poetics (XX), Aristotle lists the parts of speech on the basis of contemporary linguistic notions: letter (i.e., the phoneme: “a letter [...] of which ...
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... verbs; case (ptosis), indicating an inflection of either nouns or verbs; and finally propositions (a composite semantic unit, which could be either a simple judgment or an indefinitely long sequence of connected signifying units such as ...
... verbs; case (ptosis), indicating an inflection of either nouns or verbs; and finally propositions (a composite semantic unit, which could be either a simple judgment or an indefinitely long sequence of connected signifying units such as ...
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... verb. Other scholars too, after Trendelenburg, held that Aristotle's categories of thought are nothing but the transposition of the fundamental categories of the language he thought in: not attributes to be discovered in things, but ...
... verb. Other scholars too, after Trendelenburg, held that Aristotle's categories of thought are nothing but the transposition of the fundamental categories of the language he thought in: not attributes to be discovered in things, but ...
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... verbs); they are analyzable in partial meanings in the case of sentences. Only the latter, and not its constitutive ... verbs, elementary propositions). Inflection is not mentioned, but it is obvious that its semantic function is at the ...
... verbs); they are analyzable in partial meanings in the case of sentences. Only the latter, and not its constitutive ... verbs, elementary propositions). Inflection is not mentioned, but it is obvious that its semantic function is at the ...
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... verb (est) is a noun (V, 12—14). Yet, notes Augustine, we can ask what is the name ofsomething, but not what is the word of something (VII, 20). Thus word and name are not one and the same thing. This digression is capped by a final ...
... verb (est) is a noun (V, 12—14). Yet, notes Augustine, we can ask what is the name ofsomething, but not what is the word of something (VII, 20). Thus word and name are not one and the same thing. This digression is capped by a final ...
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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