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Some Questions about Language: A Theory of Human Discourse and Its Objects - Adler, Mortimer Jerome
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How do meaningless marks and sounds become the meaningful words of a natural language? What is the meaning of words that do not have referential significance? Can ordinary language really do what it appears to do, or is this an illusion? In this work, Dr Adler argues that these fundamental questions are not satisfactorily handled in the two main philosophies of language that have dominated 20th-century thinking on the subject - the syntactical and "ordinary language" approaches. Drawing on the tradition of Aristotle, ...

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Some Questions about Language: A Theory of Human Discourse and Its Objects 1999, Open Court

ISBN-13: 9780812691788

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