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Showing 1 to 20 of 78 for “"Philosophy of Language"”.
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Wittgenstein's philosophy of language
Includes bibliographical references.
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Bertrand Russell's Early Philosophy of Language
… in DSpace on 2014-12-10T17:07:44Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 7013338.pdf: 7788761 bytes, checksum: d6a5dc3bcadf7184f548e2ef30e26bf3 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1969
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Philosophy of Language and the Teaching of Writing
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Katz-Fodor Semantics and Problems in the Philosophy of Language
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Expression, analysis and understanding : three essays in the philosophy of language
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Linguistics and Philosophy, 1994.
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The Possibility of Mutual Benefit from Exchange between the Philosophy of Language and Second Language Acquisition Research and Pedagogy
… the view that all simple and complex sentences of English consist of one predicate and one or more terms, or are simple transforms of such sentences. There are four predicate types and seven term types, all of which can be specified precisely. The term and predicate grammar itself is based on …
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Meaning change, in theory and in practice
Semantic change is of interest in its own right in the philosophy of language. For instance, it sheds light on the relationship between the meaning of a word and its use. It also plays a role in ideology critique. Philosophy of language often focuses on explaining synchronic features related to …
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Reference and Grammar: Reasserting Wittgenstein's Picture
The aim of this essay is to present a novel line of argument in support of Ludwig Wittgenstein’s view of philosophy of language. It consists in three parts. First, it explores a family of referential theories of meaning belonging to the tradition of Millian semantics – a family dubbed ‘Millian …
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Speech, Sex, and Social Norms
… about speech, sex, and social norms. In each of the first four essays, I analyse a different communicative phenomenon: discriminatory pejoratives (Chapter 1), cat-calling (Chapter 2), shaming (Chapter 3), and flirting (Chapter 4). In Chapter 5 I reflect on how our models of speech bear on …
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The Influence of Common Sense Realism on Alexander Campbell's View of the Nature of Scripture and Hermeneutics
This dissertation examines the influence of Common Sense Realism on Alexander Campbell's view of the nature of Scripture and hermeneutics. The first chapter discusses Campbell's relationship with the philosophy of Common Sense Realism. This chapter in particular lays out the beginning of Common …
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This machine kills fascists : detecting propaganda with formal models of mass discourse structure (and other ideas)
This dissertation consists of three free-standing chapters, all of which deal with themes in the philosophy of language in general and in pragmatics in particular. Chapter 1 augments an existing model of discourse-level information structure in order to articulate relevance conditions that make the …
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Self-Creation, Community, and Autonomy: theLiberation of Richard Rorty'S Philosophy of Self As Imagined by Absalom, Absalom!
<p>My work explores the intricacies of Richard Rorty's theory of the self as it arises out his philosophy of language and then puts that theory into dialogue with the subject as imagined William Faulkner's <em>Absalom, Absalom!</em>. More specifically, after giving a detailed account of Rorty's …
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Foundations and philosophical applications of game theory
… Why maximize expected value? The third, to the philosophy of language: How should we work out the meaning of a sentence? What unites my dissertation is a decision-theoretic approach to games, and a game-theoretic approach to meaning. An epistemic characterization of a solution concept shows …
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Normative discourse and social negotiation
This dissertation lies at the intersection of philosophy of language, social and political, and feminist philosophy. The first half of the dissertation is primarily about the ways language can be used to stereotype, denigrate, oppress, or otherwise harm. The second half is about how language can be …
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Human Reasoning and Description Logics: Applying Psychological Theory to Understand and Improve the Usability of Description Logics
… (DLs) are now the most commonly used ontology languages, in part because of the development of the Web Ontology Language (OWL) standards. Yet it is accepted that DLs are difficult to comprehend and work with, particularly for ontology users who are not computer scientists. The Manchester OWL …
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Reporting theory of fictionalizing.
This is a dissertation in the philosophy of language. My main objective is to give the correct account of the speech act of fictionalizing, aka fiction-making or creating a fiction or storytelling, stipulating that this last excludes nonfiction stories and lies. The Introduction and Chapter Five …
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By Tweet and By Speech: An Examination of Values in Donald Trump's Metaphor
This Honor’s thesis examines Donald Trump’s use of metaphor and explores how he expresses his values through those metaphors. By examining examples of Trump’s political remarks, I reveal the central metaphor by which Trump operates and consider how American citizens may reestablish their political …
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