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New waves in philosophy of language / edited by Sarah Sawyer. - Basingstoke ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2010. - xi, 286 p. ; 22 cm. - New waves in philosophy . - New waves in philosophy. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Vagueness and non-indexical contextualism / Jonas Åkerman and Patrick Greenough -- Semantics and the place of psychological evidence / Emma Borg -- Naturalism in the philosohpy of language; or, Why there is no such thing as language / John Collins -- Referring when push-comes-to-shove / Kevan Edwards -- Semantic normativity in context / Anandi Hattiangadi -- Literal force : a defence of conventional assertion / Max Kölbel -- A plea for understanding / Guy Longworth -- From the expressive to the derogatory : on the semantic role for non-truth-conditional meaning / Stefano Predelli -- Analyticity in externalist languages / Gillian Russell -- The modified predicate theory of proper names / Sarah Sawyer -- Introduction, transmission, and the foundations of meaning / Jeff Speaks -- Linguistic puzzles and semantic pretence / James A. Woodbridge and Bradley Armour-Garb.

"In this book, a group of innovative young philosophers working in philosophy of language present an invigorating examination of some of the seminal issues in the field"--Provided by publisher.

9780230224377 (pbk.) 0230224377 (pbk.) 9780230224360 (hbk.) 0230224369 (hbk.)

2009044608

GBA988411 bnb

015365994 Uk


Language and languages--Philosophy.

P107 / .N47 2010

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