 Cambridge (12-2003) | PDF | 432 pages | 0521822874 | 2.3Mb Word and World: Practice and the Foundations of Language /by Patricia Hanna and Bernard Harrison. Proposing a new account of the nature of language, founded upon an original interpretation of Wittgenstein, Patricia Hanna and Bernard Harrison deny the existence of a direct referential relationship between words and things. Their provocative re-examination of the interrelations of language and social practice will interest not only philosophers of language but also linguists, psycholinguists, and students of communication. 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. A provocative re-examination of the interrelations of language and social practice this book will interest not only philosophers of language but also linguists, psycholinguists, students of communication and all those concerned with the nature and acquisition of human linguistic capacities. download link:
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