A collection of papers that provide philosophical and linguistic analyses of reference. It discusses topics discussed include different types of reference, problems of identity, indexicality, reference fixing and descriptions. It also discuss the approaches proposed by Gottlob Frege, Donald Davidson, and Saul Kripke.
A collection of papers that provide philosophical and linguistic analyses of reference. It discusses topics discussed include different types of refer...
The articles in this collection focus on philosophical approaches to proper names. The issues discussed include abstract names, empty names, naming and name-using practices, definite descriptions, individuals, reference, designation, sense and semantics. The contributions show the importance and lasting influence of theories proposed by John Stuart Mill, Gottlob Frege, Bertrand Russell, Donald Davidson, and Saul Kripke. Individual chapters assess traditional analyses and modern controversies, and contribute to the debate on proper names in contemporary philosophy of language.
The articles in this collection focus on philosophical approaches to proper names. The issues discussed include abstract names, empty names, naming an...
Studies collected in this volume investigate selected issues in contemporary philosophy of language and philosophy of literature. Individual authors concentrate on philosophy of fiction and discuss fictional worlds and fictional characters. They also present different approaches to translation theory, and metaphor theory (both classical and conceptual). Other chapters address the issues of figurativeness and poetic language, apply the principles of cognitive poetics to analyse different types of texts, and provide cognitive approaches to abstraction in visual and verbal art, also...
Studies collected in this volume investigate selected issues in contemporary philosophy of language and philosophy of literature. Individua...
This book deals with the main proponents of the causal and descriptivist reference theories on natural kind terms. The two main types of contemporary reference theories on natural kind terms are the causal and the descriptivist theories. The author analyzes the main versions of these two types of theories and claims that the differences between them are not as great as it is usually assumed. He alleges that the ostensive reference fixing and reference borrowing theories should be descriptive-causal, and he also adduces that the relation of kind-identity depends on the views on...
This book deals with the main proponents of the causal and descriptivist reference theories on natural kind terms. The two main types of contempora...
Current developments of the Minimalist Program in generative linguistics put the procedure of labeling syntactic objects at the center of the syntax-semantics transition. This book provides a discussion of consequences of such proposals for a proper analysis of different varieties of the operation Merge and their interpretive reflexes, as well as for the general theory of the syntax-semantics relationship. It argues that the absence of substitutional operations in Narrow Syntax should restrict the range of admissible interpretive operations on adjunction structures in the...
Current developments of the Minimalist Program in generative linguistics put the procedure of labeling syntactic objects at the center of the synta...
This book investigates the linguistic status of predication. The topics discussed include minimalist accounts of predication, types of predication, theticity and transitivity. The contributions analyze constructions from a wide variety of languages, including English, Polish, German, Irish, German, Arabic, Ostyak, Mongolian, Japanese and Chinese.
This book investigates the linguistic status of predication. The topics discussed include minimalist accounts of predication, types of predication, th...
This study focuses on the concepts of similarities and differences within cognitive linguistics and its understanding of mental construal as our ability to form alternate conceptualisations. It suggests that comparing theme-related texts, alternative conceptualisations, and variations might be used as a strategy in teaching cognitive linguistics.
This study focuses on the concepts of similarities and differences within cognitive linguistics and its understanding of mental construal as our abili...
