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New waves in philosophy of language /

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"In this book, a group of innovative young philosophers working in philosophy of language present an invigorating examination of some of the seminal issues in the field"--Provided by publisher.

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Sawyer, Sarah, 1969-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Basingstoke ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.
Series:New waves in philosophy.
Subjects:
Language and languages > Philosophy.
Table of Contents:
  • Vagueness and non-indexical contextualism / Jonas Åkerman and Patrick Greenough
  • Semantics and the place of psychological evidence / Emma Borg
  • Naturalism in the philosohpy of language; or, Why there is no such thing as language / John Collins
  • Referring when push-comes-to-shove / Kevan Edwards
  • Semantic normativity in context / Anandi Hattiangadi
  • Literal force : a defence of conventional assertion / Max Kölbel
  • A plea for understanding / Guy Longworth
  • From the expressive to the derogatory : on the semantic role for non-truth-conditional meaning / Stefano Predelli
  • Analyticity in externalist languages / Gillian Russell
  • The modified predicate theory of proper names / Sarah Sawyer
  • Introduction, transmission, and the foundations of meaning / Jeff Speaks
  • Linguistic puzzles and semantic pretence / James A. Woodbridge and Bradley Armour-Garb.