Bloomsbury Research Handbook of Indian Philosophy of Language

Alessandro Graheli is principal investigator of the FWF project “The Meaning of the Sentence in Indian Philosophy” at the Institute for the Cultural and Intellectual History of Asia, Austrian Academy of Science, Austria, and Assistant at the Department of South Asian, Tibetan, and Buddhist Studies, University of Vienna, Austria.

• IntroductionPart I. Of Speech Units: Phonemes, Words, and Sentences Introduction1. Linguistic Segmentation in Early Vyakarana, Maria Piera Candotti2. From Permanent Phonemes to Words, Monika Nowakowska3. Ontology and Epistemology of Speech in Nyaya, Alessandro Graheli4. The theory of the Sphota, Akane Saito5. A Buddhist Refutation of Sphota, Sara McClintock6. The Place of Language in the Philosophy of the Recognition, Marco FerrantePart II. Of Word Meanings Introduction 7. Early Nyaya on the Meaning of Common Nouns, Matthew R. Dasti8. Dignaga on Relation, Kei Kataoka9. Meanings of Words and Sentences in Mimamsa, Elisa Freschi10. Sabdartha as Sense or Reference: Dharmakirti on Synonymy, Patrick McAllister11. Semantic Relations and Causation of Verbal Knowledge, Alessandro Graheli12. Human Intellect and God’s Will in Navya Nyaya Semantics, Yoichi IwasakiPart III. Of Sentence MeaningsIntroduction 13. Salikanatha’s Introduction to his Fundamentals of Sentence Meaning, Andrew Ollett14. Salikanatha on Language Acquisition, Kei Kataoka15. The Deontic Nature of Language in Mimamsa and Vedanta Schools, Elisa Freschi16. Speaking of the individual: Prakasatman’s akhandarthavada and the beginnings of a theory of language in classical Advaita-Vedanta, Hugo David17. The Role of Intention in Gangesa’s Non-Communicational Model of Verbal Understanding, Yoichi IwasakiPart IV. Of ImplicaturesIntroduction 18. Kumarila on the Role of Implicature in Sentence-Signification, Lawrence McCrea19. The Intentionality of Words: Jayanta’s Syncretism of Nyaya and Mimamsa, Alessandro Graheli20. Rasa as Sentence Meaning, Andrew Ollett21. Meaning beyond Words: The Implicature Wars, Daniele CuneoChronology Glossary Annotated Bibliography of Indian Philosophy of LanguageIndex

[A] useful work for those wishing to find out more about the subject … It brings together some of the best research currently available on the key topics of classical Indian philosophy of language.