Incommensurability and cross-language communication /
Wang, Xinli,1956-
Aldershot ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate,
c2007.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [353]-361) and index.
The many facets of incommensurability -- Incommensurability as untranslatability -- Incommensurability and conceptual schemes -- In defence of the very notion of conceptual schemes -- Case studies : the emergence of truth-value gaps -- Toward the presuppositional interpretation -- Kuhn's taxonomic incommensurability : a reconstruction -- A defence of the notion of semantic presupposition -- The structure of a pre-suppositional language -- Existential presumptions and universal principles -- Categorical frameworks -- The failure of cross-language understanding -- Hermeneutic understanding in abnormal discourse -- Informative communication breakdown : the transmission model -- Dialogical communication breakdown I : Gadamer's conversation model -- Dialogical communication breakdown II : Habermas's discourse model -- The concept of incommensurability.
Comparison (Philosophy)
Contrastive linguistics.
Comparative linguistics.
Translating and interpreting.
Communication.