Essays on Linguistic Realism

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This book contains new articles by leading philosophers and linguists discussing a promising philosophical framework distinct from currently dominant ones: Linguistic Realism. As opposed to Nominalism and Chomskyian Conceptualism, this approach distinguishes between use of language, knowledge of language, and language as such. The latter is conceived as part of the realm of abstract objects. The authors show how adopting Linguistic Realism overcomes entrenched problems with other frameworks and suggest that Linguistic Realism will best serve those interested in formal linguistics, the cognitive dimension of natural language, and linguistic philosophy. The essays offer different perspectives on Linguistic Realism, either supporting this paradigm or taking it as a starting point for developing modified conceptions of linguistics and for further tying linguistics to the kind of formal theories of sensory cognition that were pioneered in visual perception by David Marr—whose work is predicated on exactly the object/knowledge distinction made by Linguistic Realists.
[Studies in Language Companion Series, 196] 2018.  xiii, 300 pp.
Publishing status: Available
Published online on 12 July 2018
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Cited by (5)

Cited by five other publications

Begley, Keith
2023. Katz got your tongue? The metaphysics of words. Synthese 202:4 DOI logo
Swiggers, Pierre
2023. Review of Aarssen, Genis & van der Veken (2018–2020). Historiographia Linguistica 50:2-3  pp. 353 ff. DOI logo
Forker, Diana
2021. General linguistics and the nature of human language. Theoretical Linguistics 47:1-2  pp. 61 ff. DOI logo
Lieb, Hans-Heinrich
2021. Theories of language, language comparison, and grammatical description. In Linguistic Categories, Language Description and Linguistic Typology [Typological Studies in Language, 132],  pp. 137 ff. DOI logo
Nefdt, Ryan M.
2019. The philosophy of linguistics: Scientific underpinnings and methodological disputes. Philosophy Compass 14:12 DOI logo

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Main BIC Subject

CFA: Philosophy of language

Main BISAC Subject

LAN009000: LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General
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U.S. Library of Congress Control Number:  2018009335 | Marc record