Issues in Philosophy of Language and Linguistics / Piotr Stalmaszczyk

Papers collected in this volume investigate several important issues in philosophy of language and linguistics, both traditional (such as the influences of analytic philosophy on language planning movements, or the concepts of truth and falsehood), and the most recent (including accounts of semantics and pragmatics of pejoratives and slurs; John MacFarlane’s views on disagreement; the status of Universal Grammar in linguistics and philosophy, and the emerging field of etholinguistics). These studies demonstrate that the investigation into the interface of philosophy of language and linguistics brings interesting results, and opens new avenues for philosophical and linguistic research.

Piotr Stalmaszczyk: Introduction  7

Başak Aray: Basic English and Early Analytic Philosophy  11

Alicja Chybińska: Concepts of Truth and Falsehood in Philosophy of Kazimierz Twardowski  27

Cristina Corredor: Pejoratives and Social Interaction  39

Aldo Frigerio, Maria Paola Tenchini: On the Semantic Status of Connotation: The Case of Slurs  57

Natalia Karczewska: What Kind of Disagreement Is There in Faultless Disagreement? A Comment on the Dispute Between Max Kölbel and John MacFarlane  77

Wiktor Pskit: On Universal Grammar in Philosophy of Language and Linguistics  95

Jiří Raclavský: A Model of Language in a Synchronic and Diachronic Sense  109

Urszula Zaliwska-Okrutna: Etholinguistics Evolving  125

Index  139