Words and thoughts subsentences, ellipsis, and the philosophy of language
It is a near truism of philosophy of language that sentences are prior to words - that they are the only things that fundamentally have meaning. This work interrogates this idea drawing on a body of evidence to argue that speakers can and do use mere words, not sentences, to communicate complex thou...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford
Clarendon
2006, 2006
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| Collection: | Oxford University Press - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
| Summary: | It is a near truism of philosophy of language that sentences are prior to words - that they are the only things that fundamentally have meaning. This work interrogates this idea drawing on a body of evidence to argue that speakers can and do use mere words, not sentences, to communicate complex thoughts |
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| Physical Description: | xi, 248 p. |
| ISBN: | 9780191719523 0191719528 |