S. Chapman 
Language and Empiricism – After the Vienna Circle 

The author offers a new assessment of the influence of the Vienna Circle on language study, and considers its relevance to the debate in present-day linguistics about the relative merits of ‘intuitive’ and ‘real life’ sources of data.

Tabla de materias

Introduction The Vienna Circle Falsification and the Scientific Method Holism Ordinary Language Philosophy Speech Acts and Implicatures Oslo Philosophy Interpretation and Preciseness Empiricism in Linguistics Bibliography Index

Sobre el autor

SIOBHAN CHAPMAN is Senior Lecturer in English Language at the University of Liverpool, UK. She has previously taught at the Universities of Newcastle and Kent. Her publications include
Philosophy for Linguistics;
Paul Grice, Philosopher and Linguist;
Key Thinkers in Linguistics and the Philosophy of Language and
Thinking About Language.