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Author Hanna, Patricia.

Title Word and world : practice and the foundations of language / Patricia Hanna, Bernard Harrison
Published Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2004

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 MELB  401 Han/Waw  AVAILABLE
Description xii, 420 pages ; 24 cm
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
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
Notes Formerly CIP. Uk
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 383-397) and index
Subject Language and languages -- Philosophy.
Reference (Linguistics)
Author Harrison, Bernard, 1933-
LC no. 2003051542
ISBN 0521822874 :
0521537444 paperback