Linguistic Pragmatism and Weather Reporting

ISBN-13: 9780198851134 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 240 str.

John Collins

Opis

John Collins defends the doctrine of linguistic pragmatism-arguing that linguistic meaning alone fails to fix truth conditions and detailing the relative sparseness of what language alone can provide to semantic interpretation-through his novel analysis of the syntax, semantics, and pragmatics of weather reporting.

O autorze

John Collins is Professor of Philosophy at the University of East Anglia. He mainly researches in the areas of philosophy of language and linguistic theory, but has written more broadly on the concept of truth and issues in philosophy of science and philosophy of mind. He is the author of many articles and two books, Chomsky: A Guide for the Perplexed (Bloomsbury 2008) and The Unity of Linguistic Meaning (Oxford 2011).