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This course examines the major issues and approaches
in philosophy of language in three parts: analytical
philosophy of language, pragmatics, and philosophy of
linguistics. The first part covers main theories of
meaning, reference, and truth from Frege to Kripke.
The second part covers theories of
speech acts, implicature and related issues by such
philosophers as Searle, Austin, and Grice. The final part
is concerned with linguistic relativism,
Saussure’s structuralism, and Chomsky’s generative grammar.
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