Issues in Philosophy of Language and Linguistics

Papers collected in this volume investigate several important issues in philosophy of language and linguistics, both traditional (such as the influences of analytic philosophy on language planning movements, or the concepts of truth and falsehood), and the most recent (including accounts of semantics and pragmatics of pejoratives and slurs; John MacFarlane's views on disagreement; the status of Universal Grammar in linguistics and philosophy, and the emerging field of etholinguistics). These studies demonstrate that the investigation into the interface of philosophy of language and linguistics brings interesting results, and opens new avenues for philosophical and linguistic research.

Piotr Stalmaszczyk: Introduction 7 Başak Aray: Basic English and Early Analytic Philosophy 11 Alicja Chybińska: Concepts of Truth and Falsehood in Philosophy of Kazimierz Twardowski 27 Cristina Corredor: Pejoratives and Social Interaction 39 Aldo Frigerio, Maria Paola Tenchini: On the Semantic Status of Connotation: The Case of Slurs 57 Natalia Karczewska: What Kind of Disagreement Is There in Faultless Disagreement? A Comment on the Dispute Between Max Kölbel and John MacFarlane 77 Wiktor Pskit: On Universal Grammar in Philosophy of Language and Linguistics 95 Jiří Raclavský: A Model of Language in a Synchronic and Diachronic Sense 109 Urszula Zaliwska-Okrutna: Etholinguistics Evolving 125 Index 139