Philosophy Of Language: A Contemporary Introduction (Routledge Contemporary Introductions To Philosophy)
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Paperback/English
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Description
Now in its fourth edition,Philosophy of Language: A Contemporary Introductionintroduces students to the main issues and theories in twenty-first-century philosophy of language, focusing specifically on linguistic phenomena. Author William G. Lycan structures the book's thirteen chapters into four general parts. Part I, Reference and referring, includes topics such as Russell's Theory of Descriptions (and its failings), Donnellan's distinction, problems of anaphora, the Description Theory of prop