Linguistic Representations-The Road Ahead-Ramesh Chandra Pradhan-DECENT BOOKS-9788186921586
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| The essays in this
volume deal with the nature of linguistic representations as distinguished
from other types of representations, including mental representations. These
study language and linguistic representations, examining crucial questions
like nature of language and language as a source of knowledge, accommodating
linguistic representations within the broad framework of truth-based
semantics and hermeneutic interpretation of language. The essays focus on the
structure and limits of linguistic representations from both the Indian and
Western perspectives. The semantic problems of meaning, reference and truth
constitute the main issues facing any theory of linguistic representations
and, therefore, these issues have been discussed in-depth. Besides, there has
been an effort to understand how to locate the language-reality relationships
within a broad representationalist framework. The essays take up many
specific topics, examining theories of linguistic representations, such as
the anti-representationalist stand of Wittgenstein and Derrida, Grice's
theory of meaning, and perspectives of Indian classical schools such as the
Naiyayikas' perspective on testimonial knowledge. The essays specially focus
on the Indian theories of grammar and linguistic representations to highlight
how philosophy of language, whether classical or contemporary, can hardly get
rid of the semantic locus of meaning and truth. The volume will prove invaluable to scholars of philosophy, especially those concerned with language and linguistic representations. |
| Book | |
| ISBN | 9788186921586 |
| PUBLISHER | DECENT BOOKS |
| Binding | HARDCOVER |
| Edition | 2012 |
| Language | ENGLISH |
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