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Linguistic Represent...
Linguistic Representations
The Road Ahead by: Ramesh Chandra PradhanThe book focuses on the structure and limits of linguistic representations from both the Indian and Western perspectives. From communicative meaning to meaning in trzuth-based semantics and also in hermeneutic interpretation of language, there are a wide range of issues which have been discussed in detail.
₹891.00
ISBN: 9788186921586
Year Of Publication: 2012
Edition: 1st
Pages : viii, 468p.
Bibliographic Details : index
Language : English
Binding : Hardcover
Publisher: Decent Books
Size: 23
Weight: 800
The essays in this volume deal with the nature of linguistic representations as distinguished from other types of representations, including mental representations. These study language and linguistic representations, examining crucial questions like nature of language and language as a source of knowledge, accommodating linguistic representations within the broad framework of truth-based semantics and hermeneutic interpretation of language. The essays focus on the structure and limits of linguistic representations from both the Indian and Western perspectives. The semantic problems of meaning, reference and truth constitute the main issues facing any theory of linguistic representations and, therefore, these issues have been discussed in-depth. Besides, there has been an effort to understand how to locate the language-reality relationships within a broad representationalist framework. The essays take up many specific topics, examining theories of linguistic representations, such as the anti-representationalist stand of Wittgenstein and Derrida, Grice’s theory of meaning, and perspectives of Indian classical schools such as the Naiyayikas’ perspective on testimonial knowledge. The essays specially focus on the Indian theories of grammar and linguistic representations to highlight how philosophy of language, whether classical or contemporary, can hardly get rid of the semantic locus of meaning and truth.
The volume will prove invaluable to scholars of philosophy, especially those concerned with language and linguistic representations.
Acknowledgements
Introduction
1. Linguistic Representation: A Philosophical View
P.R. Bhat
2. First-Personal Self-Reference
Bijoy H. Boruah
3. On the Irreducibility of the Semantical
Nirmalya Narayana Chakraborty
4. Representation, Meaning and Truth
Sadhan Chakraborty
5. On the Impossibility of LanguageReality Divide: Arguments from the Standpoint of Reference
Amitabha Dasgupta
6. On Grices Analysis of Meaning
Laxminarayana Lenka
7. Discrete versus Distributive Representation: The Debate Between the Classicist and the Connectionist
Ram C. Majhi
8. Wittgenstein and Derrida on Representation
Muhammedaly P.P.
9. Is there a Private Language called the Language of Thought?
Sreekala M. Nair
10. Communicative Intentionality: An Analysis of The Rules of Statement Making
Ranjan K. Panda
11. Linguistic Representations, Mind-World Relations and the Encounter with Truth
R.C. Pradhan
12. Epistemic Autonomy of Shabda-pramana: Revisiting Classical Indian debates
K.S. Prasad
13. Minding Language and Languaging Reality
Manidipa Sanyal
14. Metaphoric Understanding and Mental Representations of Moral Concepts
Smita Sirker
15. The Mentalistic Turn in Analytical Philosophy
Madhucchanda Sen
16. Limits of Linguistic Representations: Wittgenstein and the Unrepresentable that Shows Forth
Muhammad Maroof Shah
17. Hermeneutics and Language Analysis: Gadamer and Wittgenstein on the Nature of Language
Sreekumar Nellickappilly
18. The Nature of Linguistic Representations
C.A.Tomy
Contributors
Index
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