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020			_a9780415957519 (hardback : alk. paper)
020			_a9780415957526 (pbk. : alk. paper)
020			_a9780203930007 (ebook)
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035			_a(OCoLC)ocn173509284
035			_a(OCoLC)173509284
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100	1		_aLycan, William G.
245	1	0	_aPhilosophy of language _h[electronic resource] : _ba contemporary introduction / _cWilliam G. Lycan.
250			_a2nd ed.
260			_aNew York : _bRoutledge, _cc2008.
300			_ax, 221 p. ; _c25 cm.
336			_atext
337			_acomputer
338			_aonline resource
440		0	_aRoutledge contemporary introductions to philosophy
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [205]-216) and index.
505			_a""Philosophy of Language a Contemporary Introduction""; ""Copyright""; ""Contents""; ""Preface""; ""Acknowledgements""; ""Acknowledgements for the Second Edition""; ""1 Introduction: meaning and reference""; ""Overview""; ""Meaning and understanding""; ""The Referential Theory""; ""Summary""; ""Questions""; ""Further reading""; ""Part I Reference and referring""; ""2 Definite descriptions""; ""Overview""; ""Singular terms""; ""Russell's Theory of Descriptions""; ""Objections to Russell's theory""; ""Summary""; ""Questions""; ""Further reading""; ""3 Proper names: the Description Theory"" ""Overview""""Frege and the puzzles""; ""Opening objections""; ""Searle's Cluster Theory""; ""Kripke's critique""; ""Summary""; ""Questions""; ""Further reading""; ""4 Proper names: Direct Reference and the Causal-Historical Theory""; ""Overview""; ""Possible worlds""; ""Rigidity and proper names""; ""Direct Reference""; ""The Causal-Historical Theory""; ""Problems for the Causal-Historical Theory""; ""Natural-kind terms and "Twin Earth"""; ""Summary""; ""Questions""; ""Further reading""; ""Part II Theories of meaning""; ""5 Traditional theories of meaning""; ""Overview"" ""The Proposition Theory""""Summary""; ""Questions""; ""Further reading""; ""6 "Use" theories""; ""Overview""; """Use" in a roughly Wittgensteinian sense""; ""Objections and some replies""; ""Inferentialism""; ""Summary""; ""Questions""; ""Further reading""; ""7 Psychological theories: Grice's program""; ""Overview""; ""Grice's basic idea""; ""Speaker-meaning""; ""Sentence meaning""; ""Summary""; ""Questions""; ""Further reading""; ""8 Verificationism""; ""Overview""; ""The theory and its motivation""; ""Some objections""; ""The big one""; ""Summary""; ""Questions""; ""Further reading"" ""9 Truth-Condition Theories: Davidson's program""""Overview""; ""Truth conditions""; ""Truth-defining natural languages""; ""Objections to the Davidsonian version""; ""Summary""; ""Questions""; ""Further reading""; ""10 Truth-Condition Theories: possible worlds and intensional semantics""; ""Overview""; ""Truth conditions reconceived""; ""Advantages over Davidson's view""; ""Remaining objections""; ""Summary""; ""Questions""; ""Further reading""; ""Part III Pragmatics and speech acts""; ""11 Semantic pragmatics""; ""Overview""; ""Semantic pragmatics vs. pragmatic pragmatics"" ""The problem of deixis""""The work of semantic pragmatics""; ""Summary""; ""Questions""; ""Further reading""; ""12 Speech acts and illocutionary force""; ""Overview""; ""Performatives""; ""Infelicities and constitutive rules""; ""Cohen's problem""; ""Illocutionary theories of meaning""; ""Summary""; ""Questions""; ""Further reading""; ""13 Implicative relations""; ""Overview""; ""Conveyed meanings and invited inferences""; ""Conversational implicature""; ""Presupposition and conventional implicature""; ""Relevance Theory""; ""Indirect force""; ""Summary""; ""Questions""; ""Further reading""
520			_aPhilosophy of Language: A Contemporary Introduction introduces the student to the main issues and theories in twentieth century philosophy of language, focusing specifically on linguistic phenomena. Topics are structured in four parts in the book. Part I, Reference and Referring Expressions, includes topics such as Russell's Theory of Desciptions, Donnellan's distinction, problems of anaphora, the description theory of proper names, Searle's cluster theory, and the causal-historical theory. Part II, Theories of Meaning, surveys the competing theories of linguistic mea
650		0	_aLanguage and languages _xPhilosophy.
655		4	_aElectronic books
856			_uhttps://drive.google.com/file/d/1lO-3preqNZtfKEVpHnkaAi9ublZn9qua/view?usp=sharing
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