Assuming no prior experience, this core textbook introduces formal semantics in an
accessible and engaging way and provides students with a solid understanding of a range …

The main argument of this book is that the notion of truth plays no role in speaker-hearers'
interpretation of linguistic utterances and that it is not needed for theoretical accounts of …

This book traces the linguistic turns in the history of modern philosophy and the
development of the philosophy of language from Locke to Wittgenstein. It examines the …

a notion of'common, public language'that remains mysterious... useless for any form of
theoretical explanation.... There is simply no way of making sense of this prong of the …

This is the only contemporary text to cover both epistemology and philosophy of mind at an
introductory level. It also serves as a general introduction to philosophy: it discusses the …

The conceptual profile theory is considered in this chapter from a sociocultural-historical
perspective. From this point of view, this theory can be a candidate to represent the teaching …

This book grew out of a semantics course taught at the second-year level in the general Arts
or Sciences bachelor's degree at the University of Canterbury. Most of the students are …

This thesis is concerned with the semantic function of linguistic elements which do not seem
to contribute to the truth conditions of an utterance, that is, with'non-truth …

The present work is the second in a series constituting an extension of my doctoral thesis
done at Stanford in the early 1970s. Like the earlier work, The Reciprocal Modular Brain in …

This paper presents some results of a study on the acquisition of German plural morphology.
The error patterns of children and the adult control group reveal that the acquisition of plural …