Word and World: Practice and the Foundations of Language (repost)
Word and World: Practice and the Foundations of Language
ISBN: 0521822874 | edition 2003 | PDF | 433 pages | 3 mb
ISBN: 0521822874 | edition 2003 | PDF | 433 pages | 3 mb
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. 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.