Key Ideas in Linguistics and the Philosophy of Language

Siobhan Chapman is Senior Lecturer in English Language at the University of Liverpool. She has previously taught at the University of Newcastle and the University of Kent. Her publications include Philosophy for Linguists (2000), Paul Grice, Philosopher and Linguist (2005), Key Thinkers in Linguistics and the Philosophy of Language (2005), Thinking about Language (2006) and Language and Empiricism, after the Vienna Circle (2008). Christopher Routledge is a freelance writer and editor who has worked extensively in reference publishing. He has written and edited articles and books on American literature, history, and popular culture, crime fiction, children's literature, language and linguistics, and British history. He has also taught English and American literature and English language at several UK universities.

• Preface; Acknowledgements; Notes on Contributors; Acceptability/Grammaticality; Adequacy; Ambiguity/Vagueness; Analytic Philosophy; Analytic/Synthetic; Artificial Intelligence; Behaviourism; Cognitivism; Compositionality; Connotation/Denotation; Continuity; Conventional Meaning; Conversation Analysis; Corpora; Correspondence Theory; Creativity; Deconstruction; Deduction/Induction; Definite Descriptions; Descriptivism; (Critical) Discourse Analysis; Distinctive Features; Emic/Etic; Empiricism/Rationalism; Feminism; Generative Phonology; Generative Semantics; Glossematics; Holism; Ideational Theories; Implicature; Indeterminacy; Innateness; Integrationism; Intentionality; Intuition; Language Games; Language of Thought; Langue/Parole; Linguistic Relativity; Linguistic Variable; Logic; Logical Form; Logical Positivism; Mentalism; Metaphor; Minimalism; Modality; Model Theoretic Semantics; Names; Nonnatural Meaning; Optimality Theory; Ordinary Language Philosophy; Performatives; Phoneme; Politeness; Political Correctness; Port Royal Logic; Possible World Semantics; Poststructuralism; Presupposition; Private Language; Propositional Attitudes; Propositions; Prototype; Psychoanalysis; Relevance Theory; Sense Data; Sense/Reference; Signs and Semiotics; Situational Semantics; Speech act theory; Structuralism; Systemic-Functional Grammar; Transformational-Generative; Grammar; Truth Theories; Truth Value; Type/Token; Universal Grammar; Use/Mention; Index.

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