Philosophes du langage et autonymie
Une déjà longue histoire
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12100472 |
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| Authors | Philippe De Brabanter (0000-0002-7259-1159, Institut Jean Nicod, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2005 |
| Volume | 27 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 11-43 |
| Publication date | 2005-01-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Histoire Épistémologie Langage (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0750-8069 • E-ISSN: 1638-1580 |
| Publisher | EDP Sciences (PUBLISHER • FR) |
| DOI | 10.3406/hel.2005.2048 |
| OpenAlex | W2008845123 |
| Language | FR |
| References cited | 13 |
This paper reviews the wealth of theories put forward by philosophers of language over the last 120 years to account for autonymy (= the mention of linguistic expressions), and relates these theories to the major developments undergone by the discipline. The philosophers-cum-logicians from the turn of the XIXth to the XXth century (notably, Frege, Tarski and Carnap) hoped to build formal languages for science that would not exhibit the flaws of natural languages. But their logicist project proved unfeasible and interest shifted from formal systems to language and ordinary speech. The largely prescriptive judgements of philosophers of language concurrently gave way to description and analysis of linguistic phenomena, with special focus on meaning. Theories of autonymy bear witness to these transformations: from proposals tailored to the characteristics of formal languages (autonyms as names or definite descriptions), they have evolved into accounts that allow for the diversity of autonymy-related phenomena. These theories provide explanations •some better than others •for the numerous instances of •simultaneous use and mention” of an expression (cf. Your •sweetheart” has arrived). Such hybrid utterances are important because they affect our ways of looking at some central issues in the philosophy of language, notably that of the semantics/ pragmatics interface
Epistemology · Focus (optics · Formal semantics (linguistics · Linguistics · Meaning (existential · Metaphysics · Philosophy of language · Pragmatics · Semantics (computer science · Witness · Computer Science · Historical Linguistics and Language Studies · Linguistics and Discourse Analysis · linguistics and terminology studies · Philosophy
Meaning and necessity
From a Logical Point of View
Logische Syntax der Sprache
Les logiciens et le métalangage naturel
Mental Acts
The Alleged Distinction between Use and Mention
The Stoics on Ambiguity
Varieties of Use and Mention
The Semantic Conception of Truth
Quotational Mixing of Use and Mention
An analysis of linguistic signs occurring in suppositio materialis or the meaning of quotation marks and their phonetic equivalents
Quotations as Demonstrations
Speech Acts
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