Language and Empiricism - After the Vienna Circle
After the Vienna Circle
Published on 1. January 2008
Book
Paperback/Softback
V, 191 pages
978-1-349-35718-5 (ISBN)
Description
The author offers a new assessment of the influence of the Vienna Circle on language study, and considers its relevance to the debate in present-day linguistics about the relative merits of 'intuitive' and 'real life' sources of data.
Reviews / Votes
"Chapman provides a fascinating linguistic and philosophical account of the history of empiricism in the study of language from the Vienna Circle in the early 20th century to the present... Linguists will gain from Chapman's rigorous discussion of the philosopical underpinnings of linguistic theory amd methods... Highly recommended." - CHOICE
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Edition
1st ed. 2008
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Illustrations
V, 191 p.
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 140 mm
Thickness: 12 mm
Weight
263 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-349-35718-5 (9781349357185)
DOI
10.1057/9780230583030
Schweitzer Classification
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Person
SIOBHAN CHAPMAN is Senior Lecturer in English Language at the University of Liverpool, UK. She has previously taught at the Universities of Newcastle and Kent. Her publications include
Philosophy for Linguistics
;
Paul Grice, Philosopher and Linguist
;
Key Thinkers in Linguistics and the Philosophy of Language
and
Thinking About Language.
Content
Introduction The Vienna Circle Falsification and the Scientific Method Holism Ordinary Language Philosophy Speech Acts and Implicatures Oslo Philosophy Interpretation and Preciseness Empiricism in Linguistics Bibliography Index