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Renewing Meaning: A Speech-ACT Theoretic Approach

Renewing Meaning: A Speech-ACT Theoretic Approach

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PhilosophyLinguistics

ISBN10: 0199263663
ISBN13: 9780199263660
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Published: Jun 10 2004
Pages: 338
Weight: 1.44
Height: 0.81 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English
Stephen Barker sets out and defends a radically new semantic theory, and shows how it solves notable problems in the philosophy of language. According to the theory, linguistic meaning should be understood in terms of speech acts, and the fundamental bearer of truth is not a proposition but an assertion. Barker sets this theory in a broader philosophical framework, including a simple, common-sense ontology and an account of pre-linguistic mental representation. This is an ambitious, rich, and original view of language and its world.

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