Some Questions about Language: A Theory of Human Discourse and Its Objects Contributor(s): Adler, Mortimer Jerome (Author) |
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ISBN: 0812691784 ISBN-13: 9780812691788 Publisher: Open Court OUR PRICE: $22.46 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: March 1999 |
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BISAC Categories: - Language Arts & Disciplines | Linguistics - General - Philosophy |
Dewey: 401 |
LCCN: 75001221 |
Physical Information: 0.57" H x 4.94" W x 8.94" (0.69 lbs) 204 pages |
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Publisher Description: How do meaningless marks and sounds become the meaningful words of a natural language? To what do words having referential significance refer? What is the meaning of the words that do not have referential significance? Can ordinary language really do what it appears to do, or is this an illusion? Dr. Adler maintains that these fundamental questions are not satisfactorily treated in the two main philosophies of language that have dominated twentieth-century thinking on the subject - the syntactical and 'ordinary language' approaches. |