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Meaning and Modality

Author: Casimir Lewy
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: modality, meaning
Number of Pages: 168
Published: 1977-01-28
List price: $32.50
ISBN-10: 0521213142
ISBN-13: 9780521213141

A study of various central and connected topics in philosophical logic and the theory of meaning. There are important sections on the relation between linguistic and abstract entities, on necessity and convention, on meaning, sense and reference, and on entailment. Dr Lewy proposes a number of original solutions to problems which have been widely discussed in literature, and there is in particular a sharp and sustained criticism of conventionalism and reductionism. These are among the most difficult and intricate issues in contemporary philosophy, but Dr Lewy writes with great clarity and a mi

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Rhetoric, Modality, Modernity

Author: Nancy S. Struever
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Keywords: modernity, modality, rhetoric
Number of Pages: 168
Published: 2009-11-15
List price: $35.00
ISBN-10: 0226777480
ISBN-13: 9780226777481

Since antiquity, philosophy and rhetoric have traditionally been cast as rivals, with the former often lauded as a search for logical truth and the latter usually disparaged as empty speech. But in this erudite intellectual history, Nancy S. Struever stakes out a claim for rhetoric as the more productive form of inquiry. Struever views rhetoric through the lens of modality, arguing that rhetoric’s guiding interest in what is possible—as opposed to philosophy’s concern with what is necessary—makes it an ideal tool for understanding politics. Innovative readings of Hobbes and Vico allow

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Mood and Modality (Cambridge Textbooks in Linguistics)

Author: F. R. Palmer
Publisher: Cambridge University Pre
Keywords: linguistics, textbooks, cambridge, modality, mood
Number of Pages: 260
Published: 2001-04-16
List price: $41.99
ISBN-10: 0521804795
ISBN-13: 9780521804790

Since the publication of F. R. Palmer’s Mood and Modality in 1986, when the topic of "modality" was fairly unfamiliar, there has been considerable interest in the subject as well as in grammatical typology in general. Modality is concerned with mood (subjunctive etc.) and with modal markers such as English modal verbs (can, may, must etc.) and is treated as a single grammatical category found in most of the languages of the world. Palmer investigates this category, drawing on a wealth of examples from a wide variety of languages.Book DescriptionSince the publication of F. R. Palmer’

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Modality In English And Chinese: A Typological Perspective

Author: Renzhi Li
Publisher: Dissertation.com
Keywords: perspective, typological, chinese, english, modality
Number of Pages: 354
Published: 2004-08-31
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 1581122357
ISBN-13: 9781581122350

Modality is a grammatical, or semantic-grammatical, category. It is an important component of human languages. This is at least the case in most European languages. To what extent is it a near-universal? This thesis is to contribute to the question. It focuses on modal verbs in English and Chinese, two genetically and geographically unrelated languages, and analyzes what these two languages have in common and how they differ in their systems of modality. To achieve the aim, the thesis adopts the theoretical framework proposed by van der Auwera (1996, 1998 with Plungian, 2001) for the typolo