Synopses & Reviews
This book is a unique and accessible reference guide to the work of eighty key figures who have played an important role in the development of ideas about language from antiquity to the twenty-first century. The entries are extensively cross referenced, allowing readers to trace influences, developments, and debates both in contemporary thinking and across time. Each entry concludes with suggestions for further reading of primary texts and secondary sources, encouraging readers to find out more about the particular key thinker and the impact of his or her ideas.
Review
"On the whole, the volume is of good quality, a valuable endeavour for bringing together linguistics and the philosophy of language. ... I find the volume very useful, quite easy to consult and use in teaching and research, especially valuable for under and postgraduates and I really believe that it filled a gap when this was really needed."--Linguist List 17.188
Table of Contents
PrefaceNotes on Contributors
Aristotle
Arnauld
Austin
Ayer
Bakhtin
Barthes
Benveniste
Berkeley
Bernstein
Bloomfield
Boas
Bopp
Bourdieu
Brugmann
Cameron
Carnap
Chomsky
Davidson
Derrida
Descartes
Dummett
Firth
Fodor
Frege
Geach
Goodman
Greenberg
Greimas
Grice
Grimm
Halliday
Hegel
Hjelmslev
Hockett
Humboldt
Hume
Husserl
Jakobson
Jones
Kant
Katz
Kripke
Kristeva
Labov
Lacan
Leibniz
Lewis
Locke
Malinowski
Martinet
Marx
Mill
Milroy
Montague
Moore
Morris
Peirce
Piaget
Pike
Plato
Popper
Putnam
Quine
Ramsey
Rask
Russell
Ryle
Sacks
Sapir
Saussure
Searle
Sinclair
Skinner
Strawson
Tannen
Tarski
Todorov
Trubetzkoy
Whorf
Wittgenstein
Index