Language, Names, and Information is an important contribution to philosophy of language by one of its foremost scholars, challenging the pervasive view that the description theory of proper names is dead in the water, and defending a version of the description theory from a perspective on language that sees words as a wonderful source of information about the nature of the world we live in.
Explorations in the Sociology of Language and Religion (Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture)
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Explorations in the Sociology of Language and Religion (Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture)
Social scientists from many countries provide an overview of the nature of the interface between language and religion as revealed by the sociological study of them. Among their topics are language and world order in Baha'i perspective, societal multi-lingualism and multi-faithism, maligned and misunderstood marginal movements and British law, and the role of liturgical literacy in British Muslim communities.
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