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Reference is a central topic in the philosophy of language, linguistic semantics, and related areas of philosophy and linguistics. This textbook offers an up-to-date introduction to... Læs mere
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Keith Simmons presents an original, unified solution to the semantic paradoxes which have dogged attempts to give a consistent account of the logic of natural language since antiquity: the Liar paradox and the paradoxes of reference and predication.
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In the first account of how the language of reasons works, Semantics for Reasons draws on the scientific discipline of linguistics, brings together the theory of reasons and... Læs mere
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This book uses mathematical models of language to explain why there are certain gaps in language: things that we might expect... Læs mere
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This volume offers an empirical and diachronic investigation of the foundations and nature of metaphor in English, based on evidence from The Historical Thesaurus... Læs mere
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This book explores the results of language contact in Michif, traditionally considered a mixed language that combines a French noun phrase with a Cree verb phrase. The authors... Læs mere
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This volume investigates the morphosyntactic, semantic, and pragmatic properties of language, and the... Læs mere
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A team of leading experts challenge the view that the core function of language is to represent the world as it is.... Læs mere
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This book explores graded expressions of modality, such as more likely than and quite possible, which provide a rich and underexplored source of... Læs mere
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This volume presents new work on the much-discussed topic of deontic modality: the meaning and function of language relating to what is allowed, required, or obligatory, in view of... Læs mere
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Argument and imagination are often interdependent. Martin Warner explores how this relationship bears on argument's concern with truth, not just persuasion. He argues that the... Læs mere
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Bad Language is the first textbook on an emerging area in the study of language: non-idealized language use, the linguistic behaviour of people who exploit language for malign purposes.... Læs mere