PHIL 322
Philosophy of Language
Please note: this is archived course information from 2017 for PHIL 322.
Description
The components of language and its use (expressions, utterances, speech acts); theories of language and its nature (including structuralism, Chomskyan psychologism and platonism); linguistic meaning and its connection with other sorts of meaning (Grice on meaning, sense and reference, truth-conditional theories of meaning); the connection between language, thought and reality.
Availability 2017
Not taught in 2017
Lecturer(s)
TBA
Assessment
Coursework + exam
Points
PHIL 322: 15 points
Prerequisites
30 points at Stage II in Philosophy or 30 points at Stage II in Linguistics
Restrictions
PHIL 202