The Grammar of Meaning: Normativity and Semantic Discourse

✍ Scribed by Mark Norris Lance, John O’Leary-Hawthorne

Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Year: 2008
Tongue: English
Leaves: 465
Series: Cambridge Studies in Philosophy
Edition: 1
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

What is the function of concepts pertaining to meaning in sociolinguistic practice? In this study, the authors argue that we can approach a satisfactory answer by displacing the standard picture of meaning talk as a sort of description with picture that takes seriously the similarity between meaning talk and various types of normative injunction. In their discussion of this approach, they investigate the more general question of the nature of the normative, as well as a range of important topics specific to the philosophy of language, including the work of Quine, Sellars and Wittgenstein.

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