Bad language
by Cappelen, Herman, Dever, Josh
fromContemporary introductions to philosophy of language
When theorizing about language, we tend to assume that speakers are cooperative, honest, helpful, and so on. This, of course, isn't remotely true of a lot of real-world language use. Bad Language is the first textbook to explore non-idealized language use, the linguistic behavio…
Bad language
by Cappelen, Herman, Dever, Josh
fromContemporary introductions to philosophy of language
When theorizing about language, we tend to assume that speakers are cooperative, honest, helpful, and so on. This, of course, isn't remotely true of a lot of real-world language use. Bad Language is the first textbook to explore non-idealized language use, the linguistic behavio…
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