Philosophy of Language
The nature and functions of language: Language as social institution, arbitrary nature of language, symbolic nature of language, language as a tool, language as communicative, language and mind, language and thought, language and reality. Meaning: word meaning and sentence meaning; reference and meaning, meaning and speech acts, emotive and prescriptive meanings; intention and meaning; meaning and use; discourse theory of meaning; Reference: proper names, denoting words, logically proper names, referring expressions, definite descriptions, identifying expressions, rigid designators.
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