The Oxford Handbook of Applied Philosophy of Language
Title | The Oxford Handbook of Applied Philosophy of Language PDF eBook |
Author | Luvell Anderson |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | 721 |
Release | 2024-05-02 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 0192657984 |
This Handbook represents a collective exploration of the emerging field of applied philosophy of language. The volume covers a broad range of areas where philosophy engages with linguistic aspects of our social world, including such hot topics as dehumanizing speech, dogwhistles, taboo language, pornography, appropriation, implicit bias, speech acts, and the ethics of communication. An international line-up of contributors adopt a variety of approaches and methods in their investigation of these linguistic phenomena, drawing on linguistics and the human and social sciences as well as on different philosophical subdisciplines. The aim is to map out fruitful areas of research and to stimulate discussion with thought-provoking essays by leading and emerging philosophers.
Oxford Handbook of Applied Philosophy of Language
Title | Oxford Handbook of Applied Philosophy of Language PDF eBook |
Author | Luvell Anderson |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 0 |
Release | 2023 |
Genre | Language and languages |
ISBN | 9780191926853 |
"This Handbook represents a collective exploration of the emerging field of applied philosophy of language. The volume covers a broad range of areas where philosophy engages with linguistic aspects of our social world, including such hot topics as dehumanizing speech, dogwhistles, taboo language, pornography, appropriation, implicit bias, speech acts, and the ethics of communication. An international line-up of contributors adopt a variety of approaches and methods in their investigation of these linguistic phenomena, drawing on linguistics and the human and social sciences as well as on different philosophical subdisciplines. The aim is to map out fruitful areas of research and to stimulate discussion with thought-provoking essays by leading and emerging philosophers"--
The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Language
Title | The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Language PDF eBook |
Author | Ernest Lepore |
Publisher | OUP Oxford |
Total Pages | 1104 |
Release | 2008-09-25 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 9780199552238 |
The definitive reference work for this diverse and fertile field: an outstanding international team contribute 41 new essays covering topics from the nature of language to meaning, truth, and reference, and the interfaces of philosophy of language with linguistics, psychology, logic, epistemology, and metaphysics.
The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Language
Title | The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Language PDF eBook |
Author | Ernest Lepore |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 1112 |
Release | 2006-09-28 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN |
The definitive reference work for this diverse and fertile field: an outstanding international team contribute 41 new essays covering topics from the nature of language to meaning, truth, and reference, and the interfaces of philosophy of language with linguistics, psychology, logic, epistemology, and metaphysics.
The Oxford Handbook of Language and Law
Title | The Oxford Handbook of Language and Law PDF eBook |
Author | Peter Meijes Tiersma |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | 665 |
Release | 2012-03-08 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 9780199572120 |
This book provides a state-of-the-art account of past and current research in the interface between linguistics and law. It outlines the range of legal areas in which linguistics plays an increasing role and describes the tools and approaches used by linguists and lawyers in this vibrant new field. Through a combination of overview chapters, case studies, and theoretical descriptions, the volume addresses areas such as the history and structure of legal languages, its meaning and interpretation, multilingualism and language rights, courtroom discourse, forensic identification, intellectual property and linguistics, and legal translation and interpretation. Encyclopedic in scope, the handbook includes chapters written by experts from every continent who are familiar with linguistic issues that arise in diverse legal systems, including both civil and common law jurisdictions, mixed systems like that of China, and the emerging law of the European Union.
The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Time
Title | The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Time PDF eBook |
Author | Craig Callender |
Publisher | OUP Oxford |
Total Pages | 704 |
Release | 2011-04-07 |
Genre | Science |
ISBN | 0199298203 |
This is the first comprehensive book on the philosophy of time. Leading philosophers discuss the metaphysics of time, our experience and representation of time, the role of time in ethics and action, and philosophical issues in the sciences of time, especially quantum mechanics and relativity theory.
The Oxford Handbook of Language and Society
Title | The Oxford Handbook of Language and Society PDF eBook |
Author | Ofelia GarcĂa |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | 585 |
Release | 2017 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 0190212896 |
Contributors explore a range of sociolinguistic topics, including language variation, language ideologies, bi/multilingualism, language policy, linguistic landscapes, and multimodality. Each chapter provides a critical overview of the limitations of modernist positivist perspectives, replacing them with novel, up-to-date ways of theorizing and researching. [Publisher]