Philosophy of Language: A Contemporary Introduction New South Wales Premier's Literary Award for Christina Stead Prize for Fiction & Community Relations Commission Award (2006) Mari's beautiful sister

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Philosophy of Language: A Contemporary Introduction New South Wales Premier's Literary Award for Christina Stead Prize for Fiction & Community Relations Commission Award (2006) Mari's beautiful sisterPhilosophy of Language introduces the student to the main issues and theories in twentieth century philosophy of language. Topics are structured in three parts in the book. Part I, Reference and Referring Expressions, includes topics such as Russell's Theory of Descriptions, Donnellan's distinction, problems of anaphora, the description theory of proper names, Searle's cluster theory, and the causal historical theory. Part II, Theories of Meaning,