Category:Philosophy of language

Philosophy of language is the branch of philosophy that studies language. Its primary concerns include the nature of linguistic meaning, reference, language use, language learning and creation, language understanding, truth, thought and experience (to the extent that both are linguistic), communication, interpretation, and translation.

Subcategories

There are 2 subcategories to this category.

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• Semantics
• Structuralism

Articles in category "Philosophy of language"

There are 34 articles in this category.

Philosophy of language A Analytic proposition Analytical Thomism J. L. Austin C Causal theory of names D De dicto and de re F Flaccid designator Gottlob Frege G Paul Grice I Illocutionary act Inferential role semantics

L Linguistic determinism Logical atomism Logical positivism M Meaning N Nominalism O Ordinary language philosophy P Performative utterance Perlocutionary act Philosophical Investigations Proposition Q Willard Van Orman Quine R Adolf Reinach

R cont. Rigid designator Bertrand Russell S John Searle Semiotics Speech act Synthetic proposition T The Meaning of Meaning Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus Truth-conditional semantics U Universal grammar W Ludwig Wittgenstein