Renewing Meaning
A Speech-Act Theoretic Approach
ISBN13: 9780199263660ISBN10: 0199263663
Hardback,
364 pages
May 2004,
In Stock
Price:
$125.00 (06)Description
Stephen Barker sets out and defends a radically new semantic theory, and shows how it solves notable problems in the philosophy of language. According to the theory, linguistic meaning should be understood in terms of speech acts, and the fundamental bearer of truth is not a proposition but an assertion. Barker sets this theory in a broader philosophical framework, including a simple, common-sense ontology and an account of pre-linguistic mental representation. This is an ambitious, rich, and original view of language and its world.
