The present book provides a detailed criticism of experientialist semantics, focusing both on philosophical issues connected with experientialism and on cognitive approaches to metaphor and metonymy. Particular emphasis is placed on the works of George Lakoff and Mark Johnson, b…
Bringing together key essays written by a leading figure in linguistic science, this volume collects a variety of papers, many far from well known, some of them having appeared in more obscure venues of publication, and for the most part unavailable to the wider linguistic commu…
by Cann, Ronnie
fromCambridge textbooks in linguistics
by Petrilli, Susan, Rossi-Landi, Ferruccio
fromCritical theory
Since the middle of the 20th century Ludwig Wittgenstein has been an exceptionally influential and controversial figure wherever philosophy is studied. This is the most comprehensive volume ever published on Wittgenstein: thirty-five leading scholars explore the whole range of h…
Philosophers have raised and struggled with questions relating to human language for more than 2000 years. This book offers an introduction and guide to the key thinkers in the study of the philosophy of language, from Gottlob Frege to Ludwig Wittgenstein and Jacques Derrida
"Kevin Scharp proposes an original theory of the nature and logic of truth on which truth is an inconsistent concept that should be replaced for certain theoretical purposes. Replacing Truth opens with an overview of work on the nature of truth (e.g., correspondence theories, de…
