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The grammar of meaning : normativity and semantic discourse
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What is the function of concepts pertaining to meaning in socio-linguistic practice? In this study, the authors argue that we can approach a satisfactory answer by displacing the standard picture o...
What is the function of concepts pertaining to meaning in socio-linguistic practice? In this study, the authors argue that we can approach a satisfactory answer by displacing the standard picture of meaning talk as a sort of description with a picture that takes seriously the similarity between meaning talk and various types of normative injunction. In their discussion of this approach, they investigate the more general question of the nature of the normative, as well as a range of important topics specific to the philosophy of language.
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- Mark Norris Lance, John O'Leary-Hawthorne
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- English
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- Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1997
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- 1 online resource (xii, 450 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
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- 9780511895838, 9780521583008, 9780521070300, 9780521583008
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- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part I. The place of meaning talk in socio-linguistic practice -- 1. The ends and means of translation : critical reflections on Quine's indeterminacy of translation thesis -- 2. Synonymy, analyticity and a priori authority -- 3. Where do we go from here? : a pragmatist account of normative judgment -- Part II. Naturalism and meaning talk -- 4. The epistemology of meaning and the analysis of meaning -- 5. Robust meaning theories and canonical dispositions -- 6. Reduction and naturalism -- 7. Realism and factuality -- Bibliography -- Index