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How Ordinary Is Ordinary Language?
New Literary History, 1973IT HAS BEEN more than twenty years since Harold Whitehall declared that "no criticism can go beyond its linguistics."1 In that time linguistics itself has undergone a number of revolutions so that one of the terms in Whitehall's equation has been constantly changing.
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Is There a World of Ordinary Language?
Philosophy Today, 1958Having recently spent seven months on the continent of Europe and having conversed with philosophers in five different countries there, I was surprised to find, under wide diversities and sharp disagreements, a well-marked current moving in a single direction.
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Chomsky On The ‘Ordinary Language’ View Of Language
Synthese, 1999There is a common-sense view of language, which is held by Wittgenstein, Strawson Dummett, Searle, Putnam, Lewis, Wiggins, and others. According to this view a language consists of conventions, it is rule-governed, rules are conventionalised, a language is learnt, there are general learning mechanisms in the brain, and so on. I shall call this view the
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Unconfirmed Sightings Of An ‘Ordinary Language’ Theory Of Language
Synthese, 1999It is unfortunate that Francis Y. Lin, in ‘Chomsky on the “ordinary language” view of language’ pays little attention to his own remark, ‘Chomsky’s criticisms make us realize that we should not be content with general and vague formulations of convention, ability, and so on.
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Literary Language and Ordinary Language
2005Does literature have a language of its own, perhaps rather unrepresentative of, or rather different from, ordinary language (e.g. old-fashioned, obscure, pretentious, generally ‘difficult’)? The simple answer to this old question is no, there is nothing uniquely different about the language of literature.
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Technical Language and Ordinary Language
2008In order to focus my critical discussion of the mainstream approach to medical ethics, I have selected two examples: Beauchamp and Childress’s Principles of Biomedical Ethics (1979) and Jeff McMahon’s The Ethics of Killing (2002). Both are faithful representatives of the field.
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2023
Abstract The chapter opens with a discussion of how the war affected Austin’s approach to philosophy, and how this contrasted with the war’s effects on other Oxford philosophers. The topic then switches to Austin’s belief that looking at ordinary language can show us something about reality, and his own attempts to justify this belief ...
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Abstract The chapter opens with a discussion of how the war affected Austin’s approach to philosophy, and how this contrasted with the war’s effects on other Oxford philosophers. The topic then switches to Austin’s belief that looking at ordinary language can show us something about reality, and his own attempts to justify this belief ...
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The Logic of Ordinary Language
2002AbstractThis chapter considers whether there is a naive or folk logic of ordinary language, a set of principles that plays the same role in our understanding and use of language as, say, the principles naive physics play in our understanding of the everyday world.
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