Some Questions about Language Contributor(s): Adler, Mortimer Jerome (Author) |
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ISBN: 0875483208 ISBN-13: 9780875483207 Publisher: Open Court Publishing Company OUR PRICE: $8.96 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: April 1977 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Study Aids | Armed Forces (incl. Asvab) - Language Arts & Disciplines |
Dewey: 401 |
LCCN: 75001221 |
Physical Information: 189 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. |