TY - BOOK ID - 131890176 TI - The Bloomsbury research handbook of Indian philosophy of language PY - 2020 SN - 9781350049161 9781350355798 9781350049147 9781350049130 1350049166 PB - London: Bloomsbury, DB - UniCat KW - Indian religions KW - Philosophy of language KW - Philosophie du langage -- Inde KW - Philosophie -- Inde KW - Sémantique (philosophie) UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:131890176 AB - The Bloomsbury Research Handbook of Indian Philosophy of Language presents a systematic survey of philosophy of language in the Indian tradition, providing an up-to-date research resource for better understanding the history and future direction of the field. Each chapter addresses a particular philosophical problem from the viewpoint of seminal traditions and specific thinkers. Covering the philosophical insight on language found in the mainstream philosophies of Vyakarana, Mimamsa, Nyaya, Vedanta, Buddhism, and Alankarasastra, the chapters tackle crucial semantic and pragmatic questions such as the relation of the speaker to reality, the use of metalanguage, the distinction between sentences, elliptic statements, and figurative usages, and the impact of textual structures on the philosophical message. ER -