Sign Levels Language and Its Evolutionary Antecedents |
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| Author:
| Clarke, D. S. |
| Series title: | Philosophical Studies Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-1-4020-1650-9 |
| Publication Date: | Oct 2003 |
| Publisher: | Springer Netherlands
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| Imprint: | Springer |
| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | USD $109.99 |
Book Description:
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This bold venture into synthetic philosophy provides: a methodology for comparing language to primitive sign levels that avoids reductionism, comparisons and contrasts between sign levels that enable distinctions between necessary and contingent features of language, an integrative framework for relating isolated results in linguistic philosophy, experimental psychology, and ethology, and a means of resolving some of the principal metaphysical disputes derived from linguistic investigations.
This bold venture into synthetic philosophy provides: a methodology for comparing language to primitive sign levels that avoids reductionism, comparisons and contrasts between sign levels that enable distinctions between necessary and contingent features of language, an integrative framework for relating isolated results in linguistic philosophy, experimental psychology, and ethology, and a means of resolving some of the principal metaphysical disputes derived from linguistic investigations.