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Words and thoughts : subsentences, ellipsis, and the philosophy of language /

It is a near truism of philosophy of language that sentences are prior to words - that they are the only things that fundamentally have meaning. This work interrogates this idea, drawing on a body of evidence to argue that speakers can and do use mere words, not sentences, to communicate complex tho...

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Main Author: Stainton, Robert
Format: eBook
Language:English
Language Notes:English.
Published: Oxford : New York : Clarendon Press ; Published in the United States by Oxford University Press, 2006.
Subjects:
Language and languages > Philosophy.
Speech acts (Linguistics)
Grammar, Comparative and general > Ellipsis.
Langage et langues > Philosophie.
Actes de parole.
Ellipse (Linguistique)
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > General.
Grammar, Comparative and general > Ellipsis
Language and languages > Philosophy
Ellipse > Linguistik
Satz
Sprechakt
Taalfilosofie.
Taalhandelingen.
Ellipse.
Grammaire comparée et générale.
Ellipse <Linguistik>
Humaniora > Filosofi.
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