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The Practice of Language

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Editors:
  1. Martin Gustafsson

    1. Uppsala University, Sweden

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  2. Lars Hertzberg

    1. Åbo Academy, Finland

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Table of contents (14 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-1
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  2. Introduction

    1. Introduction

      • Martin Gustafsson, Lars Hertzberg
      Pages 3-8

  3. Historical Perspectives

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 9-9
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    2. On the Linguistic Turn in Philosophy

      • Sören Stenlund
      Pages 11-50

    3. Humboldt: Grammatical Form and “Weltansicht”

      • Olav Gundersen
      Pages 51-75

    4. Language as Sign and Use a Study of Certain Aspects of Saussure’s View of Language

      • Michael Gustavsson
      Pages 77-95

  4. Preconceptions: Notions of Language Within Linguistics and Feminist Epistemology

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 97-97
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    2. Expression and Content in Linguistic Theory

      • Sven Öhman
      Pages 99-107

    3. The History of Swedish Grammar and Professor Chomsky

      • Saara Haapamäki
      Pages 109-119

    4. How Ordinary is Ordinary Experience? Language in Feminist Epistemology and Philosophy of Science

      • Sharon Rider
      Pages 121-144

  5. The Practice of Meaning and Truth

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 145-145
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    2. Putnam on Truth

      • Frederick Stoutland
      Pages 147-176

    3. Meaning, Saying, Truth

      • Martin Gustafsson
      Pages 177-197

  6. Themes from Wittgenstein

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 199-199
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    2. Wittgenstein, Meursault and the Difficulty of Philosophy

      • Pär Segerdahl
      Pages 201-212

    3. Wittgenstein, Logical form and Grammatical Remarks

      • Thorsten Johansson
      Pages 213-224

    4. On Rule-Following

      • Juan Wilhelmi
      Pages 225-236

    5. Are We All Trapped in Nonsense?

      • Gudmundur Steingrimsson
      Pages 237-245

    6. On the Need for a Listener and Community Standards

      • Lars Hertzberg
      Pages 247-259

  7. Back Matter

    Pages 261-273
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About this book

How is linguistic theory related to linguistic practice? What do theoretical notions and models tell us about real-life language use? Are there any limits to what such notions and models can reasonably be taken to accomplish? These questions are fundamental to any serious investigation into the phenomena of human communication. The essays in this book show that philosophers and linguists of quite different brands have tended to give undue priority to their own favourite theoretical framework, and have presupposed that the descriptive scheme invoked by that framework constitutes a pattern to which any linguistic practice somehow has to conform. What unites the contributors to this volume is a critical attitude towards such essentialist aspirations. By investigating several concrete examples of this tendency - examples collected from such seemingly disparate areas as structuralism, contemporary analytic philosophy and feminist epistemology - the authors collectively manage to cast doubt on the very attempt to fit the whole of linguistic practice into a general theoretical mould.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Uppsala University, Sweden

    Martin Gustafsson

  • Åbo Academy, Finland

    Lars Hertzberg

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: The Practice of Language

  • Editors: Martin Gustafsson, Lars Hertzberg

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-3439-4

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2002

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-0691-3Published: 30 June 2002

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-90-481-6053-2Published: 04 December 2010

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-017-3439-4Published: 17 April 2013

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: VI, 273

  • Topics: Philosophy of Language, Linguistics, general, Modern Philosophy

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