语言哲学

PREFACE

前言

PART ONE Early Development

Unit 1 Language in Ancient Chinese Philosophy

Unit 2 Language in Ancient Greek Philosophy

Unit 3 0verview of the Discussions

PART TWO Battles over Reference

Unit 4 0nset of the Controversy

Unit 5 The Dominance of Description Theory

Unit 6 Seesaw Struggle with the Foes

Unit 7 The Final Demise

Unit 8 Rise of a New Power

Unit 9 Combating Puzzles and Challenges

Unit 10 Getting Trapped in Problems

Unit 11 Comparing the Two Armies

Unit 12 Renovating the Causal Theory

Unit 13 Extending the Causal Theory

PART THREE Meaning as Intension

Unit 14 John Locke and the Idea Theory

Unit 15 Focus on Propositions

Unit 16 Verifying the Proposition

Unit 17 Finding Truth Conditions

PART FOUR Meaning as Use

Unit 18 Early and Later Wittgenstein

Unit 19 0rdinary Language Philosophy and the“Thought

Experiment”

Unit 20 Speaker Meaning and Sentence Meaning

Unit 21 Austin’S Speech Act Theory

Unit 22 The Cooperative Principle

Unit 23 Conversational Implicature

Unit 24 The Impact of Austin and Grice

PART FIVE Language as Mental System

Unit 25 Trapped in the Movie Show：Structuralism

Unit 26 Putting the Cart before the Horse：Linguistic Relativism

Unit 27 Universal Grammar and the Chomskyan Defense

Unit 28 Criticizing the Master

Unit 29 The Importance of Idiom Competence

Unit 30 Seeking an Alternative

PART SIX Epi logue

Unit 31 Being a Good Language Learner

REFERENCES

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《语言哲学：在现代西方语言学的背后》从语言学和哲学角度来论述语言学的理论基础，将两者紧密结合起来，不仅符合当今跨学科研究的发展趋势，有助于加强语言学界和哲学界的紧密合作，而且有利于加深语言学学习者对语言学理论的认识。全书脉络清晰，语言简洁流畅，论述深入浅出，对大学教师和在读学生都有重要的指导意义。