Overview
- provides a methodology for comparing language to primitive sign levels that avoids reductionism
- provides comparisons and contrasts between sign levels that enable distinctions between necessary and contingent features of language
- provides an integrative framework for relating isolated results in linguistic philosophy, experimental psychology, and ethology
- provides a means of resolving some of the principal metaphysical disputes derived from linguistic investigations
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Philosophical Studies Series (PSSP, volume 96)
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Book Title: Sign Levels
Book Subtitle: Language and Its Evolutionary Antecedents
Authors: D. S. Clarke
Series Title: Philosophical Studies Series
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-0011-6
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
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eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive
Copyright Information: Kluwer Academic Publishers 2003
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-1650-9Published: 31 October 2003
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-3079-6Published: 20 October 2004
eBook ISBN: 978-94-010-0011-6Published: 06 December 2012
Series ISSN: 0921-8599
Series E-ISSN: 2542-8349
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 260
Topics: Philosophy of Language, Logic, Methodology of the Social Sciences, Linguistics, general