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Record Nr.

UNINA9910461406003321

Autore

Green Keith <1954->

Titolo

Bertrand Russell, language and linguistic theory [[electronic resource] /] / Keith Green

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York, : Continuum, c2007

ISBN

1-283-12317-7

9786613123176

1-4411-9749-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (185 p.)

Collana

Continuum studies in British philosophy

Disciplina

121/.68092

Soggetti

Language and languages - Philosophy - History - 20th century

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [162]-170) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contexts and connexions -- Language and the world -- Language and the mind -- Language and linguistic theory -- 'These fragments I have shored against my ruins' : Russell and modernism.

Sommario/riassunto

Although there has been a significant revival in interest in Bertrand Russell's work in recent years, most professional philosophers would still argue that Russell was not interested in language. Here, in the first full-length study of Russell's work on language throughout his long career, Keith Green shows that this is in fact not the case. In examining Russell's work, particularly from 1900 to 1950, Green exposes a repeated emphasis on, and turn to, linguistic considerations. Green considers how 'linguistics' and 'philosophy' were struggling in the twentieth century to define themselves and