By creating certain marks on paper, or by making certain sounds-breathing past a moving tongue-or by articulation of hands and bodies, language users can give expression to their mental lives. With language we command, assert, query, emote, insult, and inspire. Language has meaning. This fact can be quite mystifying, yet a science of linguistic meaning-semantics-has emerged at ...(展开全部)

This series supports the study of core topics that form substantial and identifiable parts of Linguistics degree courses as taught in the later years of undergraduate study. Each volume provides an in-depth introduction to a particular linguistic subdiscipline, while also engaging with recent research on the subject.

Metasemantics comprises new work on the philosophical foundations of linguistic semantics, by a diverse group of established and emerging experts in the philosophy of language, metaphysics, and the theory of content. The science of semantics aspires to systematically specify the meanings of linguistic expressions in context. The paradigmatic metasemantic question is accordingly...(展开全部)

Metasemantics comprises new work on the philosophical foundations of linguistic semantics, by a diverse group of established and emerging experts in the philosophy of language, metaphysics, and the theory of content. The science of semantics aspires to systematically specify the meanings of linguistic expressions in context. The paradigmatic metasemantic question is accordingly...(展开全部)

在线阅读本书 Paul Ricoeur is widely regarded as one of the most distinguished philosophers of our time. In "The Rule of Metaphor" he seeks "to show how language can extend itself to its very limits, forever discovering new resonances within itself". Recognizing the fundamental power of language in constructing the world we perceive, Ricoeur reveals the processes by which linguistic ...(展开全部)

在线阅读本书 Paul Ricoeur is widely regarded as one of the most distinguished philosophers of our time. In "The Rule of Metaphor" he seeks "to show how language can extend itself to its very limits, forever discovering new resonances within itself". Recognizing the fundamental power of language in constructing the world we perceive, Ricoeur reveals the processes by which linguistic ...(展开全部)

-作者简介- 布鲁诺•拉图尔，法国当代著名科学哲学家、人类学家和社会学家，行动者网络理论创立者之一，科学技术论（Science and Technology Studies）学界的重要代表人物。他先后任教于巴黎高等矿业学校、巴黎政治学院。主要著作有《实验室生活：科学事实的建构过程》（1979，与伍尔加合著）、《细菌：战争与和平》（1984）、《科学在行动：怎样在社会中跟随科学家和工程师》（1987）、《我们从未现代过：对称性人类学论集》（1991）、《阿哈米斯或对技术的爱》（1992）、《潘多拉的希望：科学论中的实在》（1999）、《自然的政治：如何把科学带入民主》（1999）、《重组社会：行动者网络理论导论》（2005）、《实存模式探究：现代人的人类学》（2013）等。 -译者简介- 史晨，哲学博士，南京大学哲学系助理研究员，主要研究方向为科技哲学...(展开全部)