Pragmatics and the Philosophy of Mind

Vol. I: Thought in Language

Bibliographic Data

ID9744113
AuthorsMarcelo Dascal (corresponding author)
Year1983
Pages207
Publication date1983-01-01
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenuePragmatics and the Philosophy of Mind I (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherJohn Benjamins Publishing Company (PUBLISHER • NL)
DOI10.1075/pb.iv.1
OpenAlexW4252588711
Open LibraryOL12801337M
ISBN9789027225030
LanguageEN
Citations received26

This volume deals with the relation between pragmatics and the philosophy of mind. Unlike most of the books written on the subject, it does not defend the view that a specific form of dependence holds between language and thought, to the exclusion of all other possible relations. Taking pragmatics in its original sense of “that part of semiotics that is concerned with the users of a semiotic system”, the book analyses the nature of the mental processes and states mirrored in language use. Drawing on results from cognitive psychology, the philosophy of mind, the philosophy of language, linguistics, etc., a unified view of the mental dimension in the use of language, both as an instrument of communication and as an instrument of thought, is offered. After offering a tour d’horizon of the relationship between language and mind, this volume deals with the way thought is manifested in language

Cognitive science · Dimension (graph theory · Epistemology · Linguistics · Philosophy of language · Philosophy of mind · Pragmatics · Relation (database · Semiotics · Subject (documents · Computer Science · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition · Mathematics · Philosophy · Psychology · General · Language · Language and languages · Language Arts & Disciplines · Psycholinguistics · Semantics · Thought and thinking