Word and world : practice and the foundations of language/​ P. Hanna...

Title

• Word and world : practice and the foundations of language / Patricia Hanna, Bernard Harrison.

Author

• Hanna, Patricia.

Other Authors

• Harrison, Bernard, 1933-

Published

• Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2004.

Physical Description

• xii, 420 p. ; 24 cm.

Subjects

• Language and languages -- Philosophy.
• Reference (Linguistics)

Summary

• "A provocative reexamination of the interrelations of language and social practice, this book will interest not only philosophers of language but also literary theorists, linguists, psycholinguists, students of communication, and all those concerned with the nature and acquisition of human linguistic capacities."--BOOK JACKET.

Contents

• 1. The Prison-House of Language
• 2. Referential Realism
• 3. Out of the Prison-House
• 4. Russell's Principle and Wittgenstein's Slogan
• 5. The Name-Tracking Network
• 6. Rigidity
• 7. Descriptions and Causes
• 8. Knowledge of Rules
• 9. Meaning and Truth
• 10. Truth and Use
• 11. Unnatural Kinds
• 12. Necessity and "Grammar"
• 13. Indeterminacy of Translation
• 14. Linguistic Competence
• 15. Paradox and Substitutivity
• Epilogue: Relative Realism.

Notes

• Formerly CIP.
• Includes bibliographical references (p. 383-397) and index.

Language

• English