TY - BOOK ID - 39617966 TI - Philosophy of language : a contemporary introduction. PY - 2008 SN - 9780415957526 0415957524 9780415957519 0415957516 9780203930007 0203930002 9780415957519 9780415957526 9780203930007 1135907641 1281260436 9786611260439 PB - London Routledge DB - UniCat KW - Taalfilosofie KW - Language and languages KW - Philosophy KW - Language KW - Langage et langues KW - Philosophy. KW - Philosophie KW - Taal en filosofie. KW - Taalfilosofie. KW - Language and languages - Philosophy KW - Philosophy - Language UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:39617966 AB - Philosophy 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 meaning and compares their various advantages and liabilities. Part III, Pragmatics and Speech Acts, introduces the basic concepts of linguistic pragmatics, includes a detailed discussion of the problem of indirect force and surveys approaches to metaphor. Part IV, new to this edition, examines the four theories of metaphor. ER -