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Word and World: Practice and the Foundations of Language

✍ Scribed by Patricia Hanna, Bernard Harrison

Book ID
127457131
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
2003
Tongue
English
Weight
2 MB
Category
Library
ISBN
0511184670

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✦ Synopsis

Proposing a new account of the nature of language, founded upon an original interpretation of Wittgenstein, Patricia Hanna and Bernard Harrison deny the existence of a direct referential relationship between words and things. Their provocative re-examination of the interrelations of language and social practice will interest not only philosophers of language but also linguists, psycholinguists, and students of communication.

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