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Practice and the Foundations of Language
出版Cambridge University Press, 2004
主題Language Arts & Disciplines / Linguistics / GeneralPhilosophy / Mind & BodyPhilosophy / LanguagePhilosophy / Movements / Analytic
ISBN05215374449780521537445
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=RSxzlwz_L5IC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋This important book proposes a new account of the nature of language, founded upon an original interpretation of Wittgenstein. The authors deny the existence of a direct referential relationship between words and things. Rather, the link between language and world is a two-stage one, in which meaning is used and in which a natural language should be understood as fundamentally a collection of socially devised and maintained practices. Arguing against the philosophical mainstream descending from Frege and Russell to Quine, Davidson, Dummett, McDowell, Evans, Putnam, Kripke and others, the authors demonstrate that discarding the notion of reference does not entail relativism or semantic nihilism. A provocative re-examination of the interrelations of language and social practice, this book will interest not only philosophers of language but also linguists, psycholinguists, students of communication and all those concerned with the nature and acquisition of human linguistic capacities.