Philosophy of Language: A Contemporary Introduction (Routledge Contemporary Introductions to Philosophy)

Reference and referring -- Definite descriptions -- Proper names: the description theory -- Proper names: direct reference and the causal-historical theory -- Theories of meaning -- Traditional theories of meaning -- Use theories -- Psychological theories: Grice's program -- Verificationism -- Truth-condition theories: Davidson's program -- Truth-condition theories: possible worlds and intensional semantics -- Pragmatics and speech acts -- Semantic pragmatics -- Speech acts and illocutionary force -- Implicative relations -- The expressive and the figurative -- Expressive language -- Metaphor

• | Author: William G. Lycan
• | Publisher: Routledge
• | Publication Date: Sep 12, 2018
• | Number of Pages: 238 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 1138504580
• | ISBN-13: 9781138504585