Bücher der Reihe Studies in Philosophy of Language and Linguistics

Studies collected in this volume investigate selected issues in contemporary philosophy of language and philosophy of literature. Individual authors concentrate on philosophy of fiction and discuss fictional worlds and fictional characters.

The work offers an analysis of the imperative, the periphrastic imperative, and the directive infinitive in Polish, with focus on how these grammatical structures are used in context to achieve particular kinds of interactive and interpersonal effects. The theoretical framework adopted for the study is Langacker's theory of cognitive grammar.

This book argues that perception and higher cognition are closer to each other than the Cartesian tradition maintains. The research combines results from cognitive neuroscience, the philosophy of perception and natural language syntax to demonstrate that all systems of cognition draw from a common set of computational and conceptual resources.

This is the first monograph to examine the notion of a translator's competence from the perspective of Gadamerian hermeneutics. The study's main objective is to depict different conceptualizations of translation as based on Hans-Georg Gadamer's philosophy of understanding and also to develop a theory of a translator's hermeneutic competences.

This book investigates the possible common objects of inquiry in philosophy of language and literature. Topics discussed include proper names, fictional names, truth in fiction, ontological status and metaphysics of fictional characters, metaphor, representation, interpretation, sense and nonsense.

This study focuses on the concepts of similarities and differences within cognitive linguistics and its understanding of mental construal as our ability to form alternate conceptualisations. It suggests that comparing theme-related texts, alternative conceptualisations, and variations might be used as a strategy in teaching cognitive linguistics.

This book investigates verbal synesthesia in Polish thematic blogs, proposes a new model of verbal synesthesia and argues that hierarchy of senses is not universal. The book examines synesthetic metaphors from the perspective of CMT and frame semantics and provides empirical support for metaphor embodiment and its systematicity.

The book explores the relations between Wallace Stevens' poetry and issues in general philosophy, philosophy of language, and figurativeness. The chapters move from the question of the relation between poetry and philosophy to investigating the role of metaphor in Stevens' poems.

What is it about Walter Benjamin's "Task of the Translator"? As it is clearly seminal to Translation Studies, why is it rarely, if ever, taken seriously? A re-examination of Benjamin's text in a broader context sheds light on this question and finally reveals the true potential of this text for Translation Studies and beyond.

Examining experiments in language from a variety of perspectives, this volume asks what form they should take and what should count as evidence. Looking at corpora, intuitions and thought experiments, the collection shows linguists and philosophers how the use of experimental methods can affect the arguments they employ and the claims they make.

This book treats the faculty of language as part of the Universe subject to physical laws. It presents phenomena from syntax and semantics in the interdisciplinary context. The author analyses the origin of syntax and semantics as autonomous modules (asymmetry), even though they display parallelisms (symmetry).

This book provides a discussion of consequences of label-theoretic developments of the Minimalist Program for the theory of the syntax-semantics relationship. It provides a debate of a proper modeling of interpretive reflexes of syntactic adjunction and syntactic displacement.

This book investigates philosophical and formal approaches to predication. The topics discussed include Aristotelian predication, a conceptualist approach to predication, possible formalizations of the notion, Fregean predicates and concepts, and Meinongian predication.

This book deals with the main promoters of the causal and descriptivist reference theories on natural kind terms. It alleges that the ostensive reference fixing and reference borrowing theories should be descriptive-causal and adduces that the relation of kind-identity depends on the views on kind-identity and thus involves descriptive elements.

Papers in this collection discuss philosophical and linguistic approaches to reference, within the tradition of Fregean and Davidsonian semantics. Key words: philosophy of language, linguistics, reference, proper names, events, identity, indexicality, context, vagueness, faultless disagreement, Gottlob Frege, Donald Davidson, Hausa.

This book investigates the linguistic status of predication. The topics discussed include minimalist accounts of predication, types of predication, theticity and transitivity. The contributions analyze constructions from a wide variety of languages, including English, Polish, German, Irish, German, Arabic, Ostyak, Mongolian, Japanese and Chinese.

The authors discuss philosophical approaches to proper names. They assess traditional analyses and modern controversies and contribute to contemporary philosophy of language. Topics discussed include the philosophy of language, proper names, naming, definite descriptions and theories of Gottlob Frege, Bertrand Russell, J. S. Mill, Donald Davidson.