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Philosophy of language : the classics explained
Many beginning students in philosophy of language find themselves grappling with dense and difficult texts not easily understood by someone new to the field. This book offers an introduction to philosophy of language by explaining ten classic, often anthologised, texts.
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A Sceptical Guide to Meaning and Rules
No other recent book in Anglophone philosophy has attracted as much criticism and has found so few friends as Saul Kripke's \"Wittgenstein on Rules and Private Language\". Amongst its critics, one finds the very top of the philosophical profession. Yet, it is rightly counted amongst the books that students of philosophy, at least in the Anglo-American world, have to read at some point in their education. Enormously influential, it has given rise to debates that strike at the very heart of contemporary philosophy of mind and language. In this major new interpretation, Martin Kusch defends Kripke's account against the numerous weighty objections that have been put forward over the past twenty years and argues that none of them is decisive. He shows that many critiques are based on misunderstandings of Kripke's reasoning; that many attacks can be blocked by refining and developing Kripke's position; and that many alternative proposals turn out either to be unworkable or to be disguised variants of the view they are meant to replace. Kusch argues that the apparent simplicity of Kripke's text is deceptive and that a fresh reading gives Kripke's overall argument a new strength.
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Semiotics Unbounded
Semiotics Unboundedoffers a new and original survey of the science of signs, evaluating it in relation to the problems of our time, not only of a scientific order, but also the problems concerning everyday social life.
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The Lvov-Warsaw School and contemporary philosophy of language
Leading authors in their fields present an interdisciplinary panorama of vital themes of the philosophy of language and track their historical origins. This book gives new life to historical ideas and additional depth to current debates.
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Proposition, Phrase, énoncé
La triade « proposition, phrase, énoncé » peut être étudiée selon différentes perspectives disciplinaires : philosophie, histoire de la grammaire, linguistique ou encore philologie. Elle prend sa source dans le discours de la science depuis l'Antiquité, et s'est développée jusqu'à nos jours, faisant l'objet d'approches très variées.Proposition, phrase, énoncé retrace l'émergence et l'évolution de ces concepts et en offre une vision d'ensemble. L'ouvrage présente les problématiques et les difficultés méthodologiques de ces notions, sans chercher à dissimuler les disparités, les oppositions, voire les contradictions de leurs analyses.C'est finalement de temps long dont il est question dans cet ouvrage, de permanence et de rémanence, en dépit des évolutions et des variations de ces concepts au cours de l'histoire, ce qui témoigne de leur importance et de leur nécessité.
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Discourse, grammar and ideology : functional and cognitive perspectives
Researchers in critical discourse analysis (CDA) have often pointed to grammar as a locus of ideology in discourse. This book illustrates the role that grammars as models of language (and image) can play in revealing ideological properties of texts and discourse in social and political contexts.
The book takes the reader through three distinct grammatical frameworks - functional grammar, multimodal grammar and cognitive grammar. Using examples taken from a range of discourses relating to globalisation, including discourses of immigration, war, corporate practice and political protests, the book demonstrates the individual utility and the interconnectedness of these models inside CDA. A key argument advanced is that the cognitive processes necessarily involved in making sense of language are based in visual experience. This position offers new ways of understanding the ideological effects of grammatical choices in texts and suggests a reassessment of the relationship between linguistic and multimodal grammars in CDA.
The book will appeal to students and researchers interested in CDA and the relationship between discourse, cognition and social action.
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