Language and Meaning in the Age of Modernism: C.K. Ogden and His Contemporaries

ISBN-13: 9781474425063 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 200 str.

James McElvenny

Spis treści

Acknowledgements

1. Introduction

2. The Meaning of Meaning

I. The many functions of language

II. Definition and the canons of symbolism

III. Logical atomism and its allies

IV. The trigonometry of reference

V. Significs and sympathisers

VI. Antagonism and synthesis

VII. Philologists, psychologists and anthropologists

3. Basic English

I. The Enlightenment and modernity

II. Peace and progress

III. The common solution

IV. Basic English and the common solution

V. Panoptic conjugation

VI. Grammatical reform

VII. Bentham and beyond

VIII. Totalitarianism and Newspeak

4. Ogden and the Vienna Circle

I. The Viennese scene

II. The everyday versus metaphysics

III. International picture language

IV. Contact and collaboration

V. Totalitarianism revisited

5. Epilogue

I. Linguistics

II. Natural Semantic Metalanguage

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