Philosophical and Linguistic Analyses of Reference

Piotr Stalmaszczyk

ISBN 10: 3631662645 / ISBN 13: 9783631662649

Edité par Peter Lang, Peter Lang Apr 2016, 2016

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Neuware -Papers in this collection provide philosophical and linguistic analyses of reference. The topics discussed include different types of reference, problems of identity, indexicality, reference fixing and descriptions. Other issues covered in individual chapters concern events and the event-argument hypothesis, predicate reference, definite descriptions, contextualism, types of quantifications, faultless disagreement, vagueness, reference in minimalism, and the reference system for coding spatial information in Hausa. The contributions discuss the approaches proposed by Gottlob Frege, Donald Davidson, and Saul Kripke, and contribute to the debate on reference in contemporary philosophy of language and linguistics. 246 pp. Englisch.

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• Titre: Philosophical and Linguistic Analyses of Reference
• Éditeur: Peter Lang, Peter Lang Apr 2016
• Date de parution: 2016
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 3631662645
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9783631662649
• Reliure: Buch
• État de l'article: Neu

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Papers in this collection provide philosophical and linguistic analyses of reference. The topics discussed include different types of reference, problems of identity, indexicality, reference fixing and descriptions. Other issues covered in individual chapters concern events and the event-argument hypothesis, predicate reference, definite descriptions, contextualism, types of quantifications, faultless disagreement, vagueness, reference in minimalism, and the reference system for coding spatial information in Hausa. The contributions discuss the approaches proposed by Gottlob Frege, Donald Davidson, and Saul Kripke, and contribute to the debate on reference in contemporary philosophy of language and linguistics.

À propos de l?auteur

Piotr Stalmaszczyk is a Professor of English language and linguistics at the University of ? ód ? (Poland), where he holds the Chair of English and General Linguistics. His research is concerned predominantly with linguistic methodology and the philosophy of language and linguistics. He has edited several volumes on semantics, pragmatics, linguistic methodology, philosophy of language, and on the legacy of Frege, Russell, and Wittgenstein.