How to understand language : a philosophical inquiry /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Weiss, Bernhard
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Montreal ; Ithaca : McGill-Queen's University Press, c2010.
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • The puzzles of language
  • The starting-point for analysis
  • Analysing sentence-meaning
  • Analysing synonymy
  • Radical translation
  • The structure of a theory of meaning
  • Radical interpretation
  • Linguistic norms, communication and radical interpretation
  • Linguistic normativity
  • Radical or robust?
  • Language and community
  • Rules and privacy : the problem
  • Rules and privacy : the solution?
  • Truth-conditions versus use-conditions.