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Philosophical Investigations (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.26 — 15,693 ratings — published 1953
Naming and Necessity (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.00 — 4,484 ratings — published 1971
Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as philosophy-of-language)
avg rating 4.10 — 22,188 ratings — published 1921
Philosophy of Language: A Contemporary Introduction (Routledge Contemporary Introductions to Philosophy)
by (shelved 16 times as philosophy-of-language)
avg rating 3.79 — 417 ratings — published 1999
How to Do Things with Words (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as philosophy-of-language)
avg rating 3.90 — 2,593 ratings — published 1955
Language, Truth and Logic (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as philosophy-of-language)
avg rating 3.75 — 4,217 ratings — published 1936
Word and Object (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as philosophy-of-language)
avg rating 4.01 — 1,744 ratings — published 1960
Speech Acts: An Essay in the Philosophy of Language (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as philosophy-of-language)
avg rating 3.87 — 503 ratings — published 1969
Philosophy of Language: The Classics Explained (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.28 — 75 ratings — published 2015
The Philosophy of Language (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as philosophy-of-language)
avg rating 4.10 — 287 ratings — published 1985
Wittgenstein on Rules and Private Language: An Elementary Exposition (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as philosophy-of-language)
avg rating 4.04 — 1,076 ratings — published 1982
The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Language (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as philosophy-of-language)
avg rating 4.33 — 15 ratings — published 2006
Metaphors We Live By (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as philosophy-of-language)
avg rating 4.09 — 6,851 ratings — published 1980
Philosophy of Language (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as philosophy-of-language)
avg rating 3.80 — 69 ratings — published 1997
Studies in the Way of Words (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as philosophy-of-language)
avg rating 4.12 — 114 ratings — published 1989
An Introduction to the Philosophy of Language (Cambridge Introductions to Philosophy)
by (shelved 5 times as philosophy-of-language)
avg rating 3.55 — 65 ratings — published 2002
Language and Mind (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.84 — 1,311 ratings — published 1968
The Frege Reader (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as philosophy-of-language)
avg rating 4.08 — 169 ratings — published 1997
On Certainty (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as philosophy-of-language)
avg rating 4.16 — 4,961 ratings — published 1969
Reference and Existence: The John Locke Lectures (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.05 — 86 ratings — published 2013
On Denoting (ebook)
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avg rating 3.71 — 197 ratings — published
On Sense and Reference (Unknown Binding)
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avg rating 3.82 — 304 ratings — published
The Blackwell Guide to the Philosophy of Language (Blackwell Philosophy Guides)
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avg rating 3.77 — 13 ratings — published 2005
Cratylus (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as philosophy-of-language)
avg rating 3.62 — 1,622 ratings — published -350
The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as philosophy-of-language)
avg rating 4.01 — 22,427 ratings — published 1994
Philosophical Analysis in the Twentieth Century, Volume 1: The Dawn of Analysis (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as philosophy-of-language)
avg rating 4.09 — 95 ratings — published 2003
Philosophical Papers, Volume 2: Mind, Language and Reality (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as philosophy-of-language)
avg rating 4.11 — 71 ratings — published 1975
Frege: Philosophy of Language (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as philosophy-of-language)
avg rating 4.18 — 89 ratings — published 1973
On Bullshit (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as philosophy-of-language)
avg rating 3.58 — 15,630 ratings — published 2005
Culture and Value (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as philosophy-of-language)
avg rating 4.08 — 1,932 ratings — published 1977
Routledge Philosophy GuideBook to Wittgenstein and the Philosophical Investigations (Routledge Philosophy GuideBooks)
by (shelved 3 times as philosophy-of-language)
avg rating 3.81 — 158 ratings — published 1997
Mind, Language And Society: Philosophy In The Real World (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as philosophy-of-language)
avg rating 3.72 — 606 ratings — published 1998
Syntactic Structures (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as philosophy-of-language)
avg rating 3.84 — 897 ratings — published 1957
Themes from Kaplan (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as philosophy-of-language)
avg rating 4.50 — 10 ratings — published 1989
Philosophy of Language: The Central Topics (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as philosophy-of-language)
avg rating 4.29 — 21 ratings — published 2007
Major Works: Selected Philosophical Writings (Harper Perennial Modern Thought)
by (shelved 3 times as philosophy-of-language)
avg rating 4.32 — 377 ratings — published 2009
Course in General Linguistics (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as philosophy-of-language)
avg rating 3.97 — 3,619 ratings — published 1916
Semiotics and the Philosophy of Language (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as philosophy-of-language)
avg rating 4.08 — 507 ratings — published
Must We Mean What We Say?: A Book of Essays (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as philosophy-of-language)
avg rating 4.24 — 281 ratings — published 1976
Marxism and the Philosophy of Language (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as philosophy-of-language)
avg rating 4.21 — 318 ratings — published 1929
Coming to our Senses: A Naturalistic Program for Semantic Localism (Cambridge Studies in Philosophy)
by (shelved 3 times as philosophy-of-language)
avg rating 4.00 — 2 ratings — published 1995
The Metaphysics of Meaning (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as philosophy-of-language)
avg rating 4.60 — 5 ratings — published 1990
Philosophical Troubles (Collected Papers, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as philosophy-of-language)
avg rating 4.12 — 52 ratings — published 2011
Articulating Reasons: An Introduction to Inferentialism (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as philosophy-of-language)
avg rating 4.19 — 118 ratings — published 2000
Why Does Language Matter to Philosophy? (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as philosophy-of-language)
avg rating 3.68 — 59 ratings — published 1975
Philosophy of Language (Princeton Foundations of Contemporary Philosophy)
by (shelved 3 times as philosophy-of-language)
avg rating 3.51 — 69 ratings — published 2010
Logik, filosofi och språk: Strömningar och gestalter i modern filosofi (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as philosophy-of-language)
avg rating 3.36 — 61 ratings — published 1965
Meaning and Necessity: A Study in Semantics and Modal Logic (Midway Reprints)
by (shelved 3 times as philosophy-of-language)
avg rating 4.20 — 91 ratings — published 1947
Semantic Relationism (The Blackwell / Brown Lectures in Philosophy)
by (shelved 3 times as philosophy-of-language)
avg rating 3.40 — 15 ratings — published 2007
The Blue and Brown Books (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as philosophy-of-language)
avg rating 4.13 — 2,436 ratings — published 1935
“The telegram "GRANDMOTHER DEAD FUNERAL WEDNESDAY" can be translated into any language you like—from Latin and Hindustani to the dialects of the Apaches, Eskimos, or the tribe of Dobu. We could even do this, no doubt, with the language of the Mousterian period, if we knew it. The reason is that everyone h as a mother, who has a mother; that everyone must die; that the ritualization of the disposing of a corpse is a cultural constant; as is, also, the principle of reckoning time. But beings that are unisexual would not know the distinction between mother and father, and those that divide like amoebas would be unable to form the idea even of a unisexual parent. The meanings of "grandmother" thus could not be conveyed. Beings that do not die (amoebas, dividing, do not die) would be unacquainted with the notion of death and of funerals. They would therefore have to learn about human anatomy, physiology, evolution, history, and customs before they could begin the translation of this telegram that is so clear to us.”
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“Language as a Prison
The Philippines did have a written language before the Spanish colonists arrived, contrary to what many of those colonists subsequently claimed. However, it was a language that some theorists believe was mainly used as a mnemonic device for epic poems. There was simply no need for a European-style written language in a decentralized land of small seaside fishing villages that were largely self-sufficient.
One theory regarding language is that it is primarily a useful tool born out of a need for control. In this theory written language was needed once top-down administration of small towns and villages came into being. Once there were bosses there arose a need for written language. The rise of the great metropolises of Ur and Babylon made a common written language an absolute necessity—but it was only a tool for the administrators. Administrators and rulers needed to keep records and know names— who had rented which plot of land, how many crops did they sell, how many fish did they catch, how many children do they have, how many water buffalo? More important, how much then do they owe me? In this account of the rise of written language, naming and accounting seem to be language's primary "civilizing" function. Language and number are also handy for keeping track of the movement of heavenly bodies, crop yields, and flood cycles. Naturally, a version of local oral languages was eventually translated into symbols as well, and nonadministrative words, the words of epic oral poets, sort of went along for the ride, according to this version.
What's amazing to me is that if we accept this idea, then what may have begun as an instrument of social and economic control has now been internalized by us as a mark of being civilized. As if being controlled were, by inference, seen as a good thing, and to proudly wear the badge of this agent of control—to be able to read and write—makes us better, superior, more advanced. We have turned an object of our own oppression into something we now think of as virtuous. Perfect! We accept written language as something so essential to how we live and get along in the world that we feel and recognize its presence as an exclusively positive thing, a sign of enlightenment. We've come to love the chains that bind us, that control us, for we believe that they are us (161-2).”
― Bicycle Diaries
The Philippines did have a written language before the Spanish colonists arrived, contrary to what many of those colonists subsequently claimed. However, it was a language that some theorists believe was mainly used as a mnemonic device for epic poems. There was simply no need for a European-style written language in a decentralized land of small seaside fishing villages that were largely self-sufficient.
One theory regarding language is that it is primarily a useful tool born out of a need for control. In this theory written language was needed once top-down administration of small towns and villages came into being. Once there were bosses there arose a need for written language. The rise of the great metropolises of Ur and Babylon made a common written language an absolute necessity—but it was only a tool for the administrators. Administrators and rulers needed to keep records and know names— who had rented which plot of land, how many crops did they sell, how many fish did they catch, how many children do they have, how many water buffalo? More important, how much then do they owe me? In this account of the rise of written language, naming and accounting seem to be language's primary "civilizing" function. Language and number are also handy for keeping track of the movement of heavenly bodies, crop yields, and flood cycles. Naturally, a version of local oral languages was eventually translated into symbols as well, and nonadministrative words, the words of epic oral poets, sort of went along for the ride, according to this version.
What's amazing to me is that if we accept this idea, then what may have begun as an instrument of social and economic control has now been internalized by us as a mark of being civilized. As if being controlled were, by inference, seen as a good thing, and to proudly wear the badge of this agent of control—to be able to read and write—makes us better, superior, more advanced. We have turned an object of our own oppression into something we now think of as virtuous. Perfect! We accept written language as something so essential to how we live and get along in the world that we feel and recognize its presence as an exclusively positive thing, a sign of enlightenment. We've come to love the chains that bind us, that control us, for we believe that they are us (161-2).”
― Bicycle Diaries
