Philosophy of language is the study of philosophical issues that arise due to the language based nature of discourse and argument. It is dominated by philosophical analysis, the branch of philosophy that occupies itself with what the structures of language tell us about the concepts we deploy in communicating. Philosophical analysis dates back to the Pre-Socratics , and was first made systematic ... [MORE] Analysis (9) Meaning (40) Narrative@ (8) Philosophers (23) Pragmatics@ (15) Research Groups (5) Theories of Reference@ (14) 1. Pragmatism and the Philosophy of Language - Wide-ranging article by Danielle MacBeth. From the Wilfrid Sellars' archive. 2. CogPrints: Philosophy of Language - A large number of online scholarly papers on the subject, from this electronic repository. 3. Conditions on Understanding Language - Article by Ernest Lepore. Discusses the nature of language competence. 4. NodeWorks Encyclopedia - Philosophy of Language - Acknowledges difficulties in defining the field but suggests a focus mainly on questions of meaning and truth. 5. Philosophy of Language in Classical China - Historical overview by Chad Hansen of interpretations of language in the major schools of philosophical thought in classical China (up to the Han dynasty). 6. Philosophy of Language, World Congress Papers - Proceedings of the 20th World Congress of Philosophy, held at Boston University in 1998. Archive of contributed papers in the subject area of Philosophy of Language. Provided by The Paideia Archive. 7. Review of Michael Beaney's `Frege: Making Sense' - By Mitchell Green, to appear in Mind. 8. Structural Linguistics and Formal Semantics - Article by Jaroslav Peregrin, discussing to what extent Chomsky's views displace Saussure's.

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