UID:
edocfu_9959228335002883
Umfang:
1 online resource (399 p.)
ISBN:
0-262-33396-1
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0-262-33395-3
Inhalt:
A phenomenological conception of language, drawing on Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty, and Wittgenstein, with implications for both the philosophy of language and current cognitive science.In this book, Andrew Inkpin considers the disclosive function of language--what language does in revealing or disclosing the world. His approach to this question is a phenomenological one, centering on the need to accord with the various experiences speakers can have of language. With this aim in mind, he develops a phenomenological conception of language with important implications for both the philosophy of language and recent work in the embodied-embedded-enactive-extended (4e) tradition of cognitive science. Inkpin draws extensively on the work of Martin Heidegger, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, and Ludwig Wittgenstein, showing how their respective conceptions of language can be combined to complement each other within a unified view. From the early Heidegger, Inkpin extracts a basic framework for a phenomenological conception of language, comprising both a general picture of the role of language and a specific model of the function of words. Merleau-Ponty's views are used to explicate the generic "pointing out"--or presentational--function of linguistic signs in more detail, while the late Wittgenstein is interpreted as providing versatile means to describe their many pragmatic uses. Having developed this unified phenomenological view, Inkpin explores its broader significance. He argues that it goes beyond the conventional realism/idealism opposition, that it challenges standard assumptions in mainstream post-Fregean philosophy of language, and that it makes a significant contribution not only to the philosophical understanding of language but also to 4e cognitive science.
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Description based upon print version of record.
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Contents; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Introduction; Getting Phenomenology Right; Getting Phenomenology Historically Right; The Path Ahead; I A Heideggerian Framework; 1 The "Place" of Language; The World of Significance; The Articulation of Significance; Linguistic versus Pragmatic Articulacy; The Heterogeneity of Sentences; Linguistic Articulacy; 2 Phenomenological Commitments; Language as Language-in-the-World; The Idea of Prepredicative Founding; 3 The Disclosive Function of Linguistic Signs; Heidegger's Ambivalence about Language; Phenomenological Concepts as Formal Indication
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Heidegger's Ambivalence ExplainedLinguistic Signs as Compound Instruments; II Merleau-Ponty; 4 Language as the Expression of Lived Sense; The Efficacy of Language; The Phenomenology of Lived Sense; Creative and Established Expression; The Aspectual Presence of Language; The Heideggerian Framework Revisited; 5 The Art and Science of Indirect Sense; The Differential Structure of Indirect Sense; The Inchoate Rationality of Indirect Sense; The Presentational Function of Style; Painting as a Model of Deliberative Activity; Style as a Preconceptual Generality; Presentational Sense as Indirect Sense
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III Wittgenstein6 Language and the Structure of Practice; Appropriating Wittgenstein; Language-Games; Practice Constitutes Meaning; The Incoherence of Full Determinacy; Rules Reconfigured; Rules Constrained; Pragmatic Sense; 7 Coping with Language; Rule-Following Practices; Prepredicative Language-Games; The Heideggerian Framework Completed; The Disclosive Function of Language; IV Some Philosophical Implications; 8 The World Disclosed; Heidegger on the "Reality Problem"; Linguistic Contact with the World; Beyond Realism and Nonrealism; 9 Phenomenology and Semantics; Two Approaches to Language
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Weak Functional FoundationModerate Functional Foundation; Intelligent Absorbed Coping; The Challenge of Pervasive Conceptualism; Dissolving Bedrock; 10 Phenomenology and Beyond; Below the Experiential Surface; A Shared Outlook; Embedding and Extending Phenomenology; Notes; References; Index
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English
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 0-262-03391-7
Sprache:
Englisch