Language and Meaning in the Age of Modernism - James McElvenny

Language and Meaning in the Age of Modernism

C.K. Ogden and His Contemporaries

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Buch | Softcover
200 Seiten
2019
Edinburgh University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4744-2506-3 (ISBN)
26,15 inkl. MwSt
This book explores the influential currents in the philosophy of language and linguistics of the first half of the twentieth century, from the perspective of the English scholar C. K. Ogden (18891957). It reveals links between early analytic philosophy, semiotics and linguistics in a crucial period of their respective histories.
Explores the origins of key concepts in semantics and semiotics.
This book explores the influential currents in the philosophy of language and linguistics of the first half of the twentieth century, from the perspective of the English scholar C. K. Ogden (18891957). Ogden was connected to several of the most significant figures of the modernist period, including Bertrand Russell, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Victoria Lady Welby, Otto Neurath and Rudolf Carnap. In investigating these connections, this book reveals links between early analytic philosophy, semiotics and linguistics in a crucial period of their respective histories and in turn sheds light on the intellectual history of the early twentieth century.
Readers are introduced to the important interaction between Ogden's thought and Victoria Lady Welby's 'significs', Bertrand Russell and Ludwig Wittgenstein's 'logical atomism' in its various forms, and the philosophy and political activism of Otto Neurath and Rudolf Carnap of the Vienna Circle. McElvenny also examines the background to the ideas espoused in Ogden's book The Meaning of Meaning, co-authored with I. A. Richards, along with the application of these ideas in Ogden's international language project Basic English.

James McElvenny is a Postdoctoral Fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation at the Department of Romance Studies, University of Potsdam.

Erscheinungsdatum
Zusatzinfo 4 B/W illustrations 1 colour illustrations 4 B/W halftones
Verlagsort Edinburgh
Sprache englisch
Maße 156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Sprachphilosophie
ISBN-10 1-4744-2506-2 / 1474425062
ISBN-13 978-1-4744-2506-3 / 9781474425063
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