The Grammar of Meaning: Normativity and Semantic Discourse
Mark Norris Lance (Georgetown University, Washington DC),John O'Leary-Hawthorne (Syracuse University, New York)
The Grammar of Meaning: Normativity and Semantic Discourse
Mark Norris Lance (Georgetown University, Washington DC),John O'Leary-Hawthorne (Syracuse University, New York)
What is the function of concepts pertaining to meaning in sociolinguistic practice? In this study, the authors argue that we can approach a satisfactory answer by displacing the standard picture of meaning talk as a sort of description with picture that takes seriously the similarity between meaning talk and various types of normative injunction. In their discussion of this approach, they investigate the more general question of the nature of the normative, as well as a range of important topics specific to the philosophy of language, including the work of Quine, Sellars and Wittgenstein.
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