LEADER 03557nam 2200685Ia 450 001 9910825789903321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-107-14601-1 010 $a1-280-45775-9 010 $a0-511-61654-6 010 $a0-511-18550-2 010 $a0-511-18467-0 010 $a0-511-18731-9 010 $a0-511-31347-0 010 $a0-511-18638-X 035 $a(CKB)1000000000353549 035 $a(EBL)256666 035 $a(OCoLC)171138451 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000273747 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11244104 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000273747 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10313812 035 $a(PQKB)10139935 035 $a(UkCbUP)CR9780511616549 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL256666 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10124696 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL45775 035 $a(OCoLC)935231217 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC256666 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000353549 100 $a20030423d2004 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aWord and world $epractice and the foundations of language /$fPatricia Hanna, Bernard Harrison 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aCambridge ;$aNew York $cCambridge University Press$d2004 215 $a1 online resource (xii, 420 pages) $cdigital, PDF file(s) 300 $aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015). 311 $a0-521-53744-4 311 $a0-521-82287-4 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 383-397) and index. 327 $aScepticism and Language: The prison-house of language -- Referential realism -- Out of the prison-house -- Names and Their Bearers: Russell's principle and Wittgenstein's slogan -- The name-tracking network -- Rigidity -- Description and causes -- Knowledge of rules -- Propositions: Meaning and truth -- Truth and use -- Unnatural kinds -- Necessity and 'grammar' -- Paradoxes of Interpretation: -- Indeterminacy of translation -- Linguistic competence -- Paradox and substitutivity. 330 $aThis 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. Rather, the link between language and world is a two-stage one, in which meaning is used and in which a natural language should be understood as fundamentally a collection of socially devised and maintained practices. Arguing against the philosophical mainstream descending from Frege and Russell to Quine, Davidson, Dummett, McDowell, Evans, Putnam, Kripke and others, the authors demonstrate that discarding the notion of reference does not entail relativism or semantic nihilism. 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. 606 $aLanguage and languages$xPhilosophy 606 $aReference (Linguistics) 615 0$aLanguage and languages$xPhilosophy. 615 0$aReference (Linguistics) 676 $a401 700 $aHanna$b Patricia$0291450 701 $aHarrison$b Bernard$f1933-$0196622 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910825789903321 996 $aWord and world$9740664 997 $aUNINA