Words and Thoughts
Download or Read eBook Words and Thoughts PDF written by Robert Stainton and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
| Author | : Robert Stainton |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
| Total Pages | : 261 |
| Release | : 2006 |
| ISBN-10 | : 9780199250387 |
| ISBN-13 | : 0199250383 |
| Rating | : 4/5 (87 Downloads) |
Book Synopsis Words and Thoughts by : Robert Stainton
Book excerpt: It is a near truism of philosophy of language that sentences are prior to words---that they are the only things that fundamentally have meaning. Robert's Stainton's study interrogates this idea, drawing on a wide body of evidence to argue that speakers can and do use mere words, not sentences, to communicate complex thoughts.
