De Lingua Belief (Bradford Books)
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: October 1, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9780262062572
Subjects: Philosophy of language; Language Arts & Disciplines; Language Arts / Linguistics / Literacy; Language; Linguistics; Language Arts & Disciplines / Linguistics; Language and languages; Language awareness; Philosophy
First sentence: Speakers, in the course of their conversations, use language to talk about language.
Description: "Speakers, in their everyday conversations, use language to talk about language. They may wonder about what words mean, to whom a name refers, whether a sentence is true. They may worry whether they have been clear, or correctly expressed what they meant to say. That speakers can make such inquiries implies a degree of access to the complex array of knowledge and skills underlying our ability to speak, and though this access is incomplete, we nevertheless can form on this basis beliefs about linguistic matters of considerable subtlety, about ourselves and others. It is beliefs of this sort - de lingua beliefs - that Robert Fiengo and Robert May explore in this book."--Jacket.