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Hardcover Renewing Meaning: A Speech-ACT Theoretic Approach Book

ISBN: 0199263663

ISBN13: 9780199263660

Renewing Meaning: A Speech-ACT Theoretic Approach

Stephen Barker sets out and defends a radically new semantic theory, and shows how it solves notable problems in the philosophy of language. According to the theory, linguistic meaning should be understood in terms of speech acts, and the fundamental bearer of truth is not a proposition but an assertion. Barker sets this theory in a broader philosophical framework, including a simple, common-sense ontology and an account of pre-linguistic mental representation...

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