Truth, Force, and Knowledge in Language: Essays on Semantic and Pragmatic Topics

by Savas L. Tsohatzidis

Overview

This book collects twenty-five of the author's essays, each of which addresses a descriptive or a foundational issue that arises at the interface between linguistic semantics and pragmatics, on the one hand, and the philosophy of language, on the other.

Arranged into three interconnected parts (I. Matters of Meaning and Truth; II. Matters of Meaning and Force; III. Knowledge Matters), the essays suggest that some key topics in the above-mentioned fields have often been approached in ways that considerably underestimate their empirical or conceptual complexity, and attempt to delineate perspectives from which, and conditions under which, an improved understanding of those topics could be sought.

The book will be of interest to linguists working in semantics and pragmatics, and to philosophers working in the philosophy of language and in epistemology.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783110687507
Publisher:	De Gruyter
Publication date:	08/24/2020
Series:	Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM] , #344
Pages:	355
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.06(h) x (d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Savas L. Tsohatzidis, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece.