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Philosophy of Language: Force, Meaning and Mind
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Philosophy of Language: Force, Meaning and Mind

This is a volume of original essays on key aspects of John Searle's philosophy of language. It examines Searle's work in relation to current issues of central significance, including internalism versus externalism about mental and linguistic content, truth-conditional versus non-truth-conditional conceptions of content, the relative priorities of thought and language in the explanation of intentionality, the status of the distinction between force and sense in the theory of meaning, the issue of meaning scepticism in relation to rule-following, and the proper characterization of 'what is said' in relation to the semantics/pragmatics distinction.
 
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Tags: relation, versus, content, meaning, distinction
Author and Narrator: Transdisciplinary Contributions to a Narratological (Linguae & Litterae)
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Author and Narrator: Transdisciplinary Contributions to a Narratological (Linguae & Litterae)Author and Narrator: Transdisciplinary Contributions to a Narratological (Linguae & Litterae)

The distinction between author and narrator is one of the cornerstones of narrative theory. In the past two decades, however, scope, implications and consequences of this distinction have become the subjects of debate. This volume offers contributions to these debates from different vantage points: literary studies, linguistics, philosophy, and media studies. It thus manifests the status of narrative theory as a transdisciplinary project.
 
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Tags: theory, studies, narrative, distinction, media, Author, Litterae
Treatment of Recurrent Depression (Review of Psychiatry)
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Treatment of Recurrent Depression (Review of Psychiatry)

Based on powerful epidemiological data such as numbers afflicted, mortality rates from suicide, personal and familial consequences, and skyrocketing fiscal costs, major depressive disorder (MDD) has the sad and ignominious distinction of being a leader among disabling disorders worldwide.
 
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Tags: leader, among, being, distinction, disorder
Non-Verbal Predication: Copular sentences at the syntax-semantics interface
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Non-Verbal Predication: Copular sentences at the syntax-semantics interfaceThis book considers the syntax and semantics of non-verbal predicates (i.e., nominal, adjectival and prepositional predicates) in copular sentences. Isabelle Roy explores how a single structure for predication can account for the different interpretations of non-verbal predicates. The book departs from earlier studies by arguing in favor of a ternary distinction between defining / characterizing / situation-descriptive predicates rather than the more common stage-level/individual distinction.
 
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Tags: predicates, distinction, non-verbal, sentences, defining
Types and Tokens: On Abstract Objects
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Types and Tokens: On Abstract ObjectsTypes and Tokens: On Abstract Objects

There is a widely recognized but infrequently discussed distinction between the spatiotemporal furniture of the world (tokens) and the types of which they are instances. Words come in both types and tokens—for example, there is only one word type 'the' but there are numerous tokens of it on this page—as do symphonies, bears, chess games, and many other types of things. In this book, Linda Wetzel examines the distinction between types and tokens and argues that types exist (as abstract objects, since they lack a unique spatiotemporal location).
 
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Tags: types, tokens, between, there, distinction, spatiotemporal