[SydPhil] History and Philosophy of Linguistics Reading group ­ Tuesday August 14

[Nick Riemer]

History and Philosophy of Linguistics Reading group

Next meeting: Tuesday, August 28, 5.30–7pm, Woolley S361

Reading: Stainton, Robert  2011. In defence of public languages. Linguistics and Philosophy 34: 479–488,

Abstract
My modest aim in this note is to sketch three interrelated critiques of
public languages, and to respond to them. All are broadly Chomskyan, and all
support the same conclusion: that, insofar as they even exist, the study of public
languages is not a viable scientific project. (Related critiques of semantics, understood
as involving word–world relations, will be touched on as well).

Supplementary reading:
Stainton, Robert 2006. Meaning and Reference. Some Chomskian Themes. Chapter 36 of Lepore, Ernest and Barry C. Smith (eds) The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Language. Oxford: OUP, 913–940.

Reading available by signing up to http://hplinguistics.pbworks.com.

Enquiries: nick.riemer at sydney.edu.au

All welcome!
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