The Word and the World: India’s Contribution to the Study of Language

Provides an account of the arguments of classical Indian philosophers, Sanskrit grammarians and literary critics about the origins and nature of language, the theories of meaning and the related problem of universals, the connection between the ordinary meaning and the profundity of sense in a literary composition. It also looks into the question of what is sayable, and what can be shown but not said in language. This book is intended for scholars and students of philosophy.