Word and World

by Patricia Hanna and Bernard Harrison

Book Overview

This important book proposes a new account of the nature of language, founded upon an original interpretation of Wittgenstein. The authors deny the existence of a direct referential relationship between words and things. Rather, the link between language and world is a two-stage one, in which meaning is used and in which a natural language should be understood as fundamentally a collection of socially devised and maintained practices. Arguing against...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521822874
• ISBN13: 9780521822879
• Release Date: December 2003
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 432 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.2" x 9.1"