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The Language Connection: Philosophy and Linguistics
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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher Thoemmes Pr
Publication date June 1, 1997
Pages 193
Binding Hardcover
Book category Adult Non-Fiction
ISBN-13 9781855064973
ISBN-10 1855064979
Dimensions 0.75 by 5.75 by 9 in.
Availability§ Publisher Out of Stock Indefinitely
Original list price $150.00
§As reported by publisher
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Amazon.com description: Product Description: This text is part of the "Bristol Introductions" series which aims to present perspectives on philosophical themes, using non-technical language, for both the new and the advanced scholar. This work argues that over the centuries both philosophers and linguists have underestimated the extent to which their linguistic discussions have been locked into a metalanguage which they have vested interest in protecting and perpetuating. This metalanguage (which includes such terms as "language", "sentence", "word", "grammar", "meaning", "true" and "false") generates some linguistic problems, while inhibiting the recognition of others. It also tacitly marks the boundaries within which solutions can be proposed and defended. In short, this metalanguage supplies the Western code of conduct by which linguistic debate can be engaged. Thus, the book raises the question of whether metalanguage itself, as a historical product, is not the source of serious limitations in both philosophy and linguistics. This question has its own problems; for to reject the metalanguage entirely is to undermine the disciplinary foundations of both subjects - as well as leaving unclear on what basis linguistic inquiry should henceforth proceed.

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Hardcover
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from St Augustine Pr Inc (January 1, 2000)
9781890318468 | details & prices | List price $55.01
About: This text is part of the "Bristol Introductions" series which aims to present perspectives on philosophical themes, using non-technical language, for both the new and the advanced scholar.
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from Thoemmes Pr (June 1, 1997)
9781855064973 | details & prices | 193 pages | 5.75 × 9.00 × 0.75 in. | 0.95 lbs | List price $150.00
About: This text is part of the "Bristol Introductions" series which aims to present perspectives on philosophical themes, using non-technical language, for both the new and the advanced scholar.
Paperback
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from Thoemmes Pr (August 1, 1996)
9781855064980 | details & prices | 193 pages | 5.50 × 8.75 × 0.50 in. | 0.70 lbs | List price $18.00
About: Why have philosophers and linguists in the West always failed to agree about language?

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