Language and learning philosophy of language in the Hellenistic Age
The philosophers and scholars of the Hellenistic world laid the foundations upon which the Western tradition based analytical grammar, linguistics, philosophy of language, and other disciplines probing the nature and origin of human communication. Building on the pioneering work of Plato and Aristot...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge :
Cambridge University Press
2005.
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| Colección: | CUP ebooks.
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| Acceso en línea: | Conectar con la versión electrónica |
| Ver en Universidad de Navarra: | https://innopac.unav.es/record=b42041041*spi |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- The Stoics on the origin of language and the foundations of etymology / James Allen
- Stoic linguistics, Plato's Cratylus, and Augustine's De dialectica / A.A. Long
- Epicurus and his predecessors on the origin of language / Alexander Verlinsky
- Lucretius on what language is not / Catherine Atherton
- Communicating cynicism: Diogenes' gangsta rap / Ineke Sluiter
- Common sense: concepts, definition and meaning in and out of the Stoa / Charles Brittain
- Varro's anti-analogist / David Blank
- The Stoics on fallacies of equivocation / Susanne Bobzien
- What is a disjunction? / Jonathan Barnes
- Theories of language in the Hellenistic age and in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries / Sten Ebbesen.
