Words and Thoughts: Subsentences, Ellipsis, and the Philosophy of Language
Published in the United States by Oxford University Press (2006)
| Abstract | It is a near truism of philosophy of language that sentences are prior to words--that they are the only things that fundamentally have meaning. Robert's Stainton's study interrogates this idea, drawing on a wide body of evidence to argue that speakers can and do use mere words, not sentences, to communicate complex thoughts. | |||||||||
| Keywords | Language and languages Philosophy Speech acts (Linguistics Grammar, Comparative and general Ellipsis | |||||||||
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| Call number | P107.S73 2006 | |||||||||
| ISBN(s) | 9780199250387 0199250383 | |||||||||
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