Objects of Inquiry in Philosophy of Language and Linguistics

Piotr Stalmaszczyk is a professor of English Language and Linguistics at the University of Lodz (Poland), where he holds the Chair of English and General Linguistics. His research is concerned predominantly with linguistic methodology and the philosophy of language and linguistics.

• Proper names – Fictional names – Fictional characters – Truth in fiction – Metaphysics of fictional characters – Millian semantics – Fregean semantics – Realism and antirealism – Sense and nonsense – Metaphor – Representation – Interpretation – Donald Davidson – Franz Kafka – Finnegans Wake