Description
In this pioneering study of communicative conventions, distinguished philosopher Nicholas Rescher focuses on the principles at work in the communicative use of language. Rescher explores various aspects of explanatory and expository uses of language across a wide range of applications, ranging from the factual to the fictional, and from the expository to the literary. A unifying theme of the book is pragmatic conventionality. Rescher explores the fundamentally pragmatic conception of communicative conventions: rules of procedure that form part of the setting of tacit undertakings that function in various sectors of communicative practice. Only in this setting, he argues, can one achieve an adequate understanding of the way in which the business of communication is actually carried on within its wider setting of its service in the conduct of human affairs.
Table of Contents
Chapter 2 Communicative Pragmatism
Chapter 3 Rhetoric and Rational Argumentation
Chapter 4 Truth Conditions versus Use Conditions
Chapter 5 Presumption and Probability
Chapter 6 Objectivity and Communication
Chapter 7 Biographology: An Introduction to Biography Theory
Chapter 8 On the Ways and Vagaries of Fiction
Chapter 9 The Signification of Silence
Chapter 10 The Interpretation of Philosophical Texts
Chapter 11 Philosophical Discourse
Chapter 12 Against Deconstructionism
Chapter 13 Index of Names
Product details
| Published | 03 Sep 1998 |
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| Format | Ebook (Epub & Mobi) |
| Edition | 1st |
| Extent | 224 |
| ISBN | 9780742574342 |
| Imprint | Rowman & Littlefield Publishers |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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