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Living Words

Name: Living Words
Brand: Oxford University Press
SKU: 9780198712053
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Autor: Peter Ludlow

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Peter Ludlow shows how word meanings are much more dynamic than we might have supposed, and explores...

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Autor

Peter Ludlow

Limbă

engleză

Legare

Carte - Copertă tare

Publicat

2014

Pagini

204

EAN

9780198712053

ISBN

0198712057

Enbook ID

04528286

Editura

Oxford University Press

Greutate

382

Dimensiuni

148 x 223 x 17

Descriere completă

Peter Ludlow shows how word meanings are much more dynamic than we might have supposed, and explores how meanings are modulated (changed) even during the course of our everyday conversations. When we engage with communicative partners we build micro-languages on the fly-languages that may be fleeting, but which serve our joint interests. Sometimes we sync up on word meanings without reflection, but in many cases we debate the proper modulation of the meanings of our words. Living Words explores the norms that govern the ways in which we litigate word meanings. The resulting view is radical, and Ludlow shows that it has far-reaching consequences for our political and legal discourse and also for some of the deepest and most intractable puzzles that have gripped English-language philosophy for the past 100 years-including puzzles in the foundations of semantics, epistemology, and logic.