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Philosophy of Language
Philosophy of Language: a Contemporary Introduction introduces the student
to the main issues and theories in twentieth and twenty-first-century phi-
losophy of language, focusing specifically on linguistic phenomena.
Topics are structured in four parts in the book. Part I, Reference and
Referring, includes topics such as Russell's Theory of Descriptions,
Donnellan's distinction, problems of anaphora, the description theory of
proper names, Searle's cluster theory, and the causalhistorical theory. Part
II, Theories of Meaning, surveys the competing theories of linguistic mean-
ing and compares their various advantages and liabilities. Part III, Pragmatics
and Speech Acts, introduces the basic concepts of linguistic pragmatics,
includes a detailed discussion of the problem of indirect force and surveys
approaches to metaphor. Part IV, new to this edition, examines the four
theories of metaphor.
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