29.2188, Books: Language and Meaning in the Age of Modernism: McElvenny
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Date: Fri, 18 May 2018 13:48:21
From: Anna Glazier [Anna.Glazier at eup.ed.ac.uk]
Subject: Language and Meaning in the Age of Modernism: McElvenny
Title: Language and Meaning in the Age of Modernism
Subtitle: C.K. Ogden and His Contemporaries
Publication Year: 2018
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
http://www.euppublishing.com
Book URL: https://edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-language-and-meaning-in-the-age-of-modernism.html
Author: James McElvenny
Electronic: ISBN: 9781474425056 Pages: 200 Price: U.K. £ 75
Electronic: ISBN: 9781474425049 Pages: 200 Price: U.K. £ 75
Hardback: ISBN: 9781474425032 Pages: 200 Price: U.K. £ 75
Abstract:
This book explores the influential currents in the philosophy of language and
linguistics of the first half of the twentieth century, from the perspective
of the English scholar C. K. Ogden (1889–1957). Ogden was connected to several
of the most significant figures of the modernist period, including Bertrand
Russell, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Victoria Lady Welby, Otto Neurath and Rudolf
Carnap. In investigating these connections, this book reveals links between
early analytic philosophy, semiotics and linguistics in a crucial period of
their respective histories and in turn sheds light on the intellectual history
of the early twentieth century.
Readers are introduced to the important interaction between Ogden’s thought
and Victoria Lady Welby’s ‘significs’, Bertrand Russell and Ludwig
Wittgenstein’s ‘logical atomism’ in its various forms, and the philosophy and
political activism of Otto Neurath and Rudolf Carnap of the Vienna Circle.
McElvenny also examines the background to the ideas espoused in Ogden’s book
'The Meaning of Meaning', co-authored with I. A. Richards, along with the
application of these ideas in Ogden’s international language project 'Basic
English'.
* Provides a detailed study of the historical origin of key concepts in
semantics and semiotics
* Reveals links between early analytic philosophy, semiotics and linguistics
in a crucial period of their respective histories
* Makes extensive use of previously unexplored sources, including Ogden’s
articles in the journal 'Psyche' and unpublished correspondence
* Includes a detailed examination of 'The Meaning of Meaning', 1923 and 'Basic
English', 1930
The print edition of this book is distributed in North America by Oxford
University Press under the Edinburgh University Press imprint and with the
Edinburgh ISBN.
Linguistic Field(s): Philosophy of Language
Written In: English (eng)
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