The Practice of Language

Acknowledgments. Introduction. Part I: Historical Perspectives. On the Linguistic Turn in Philosophy; S. Stenlund. Humboldt: Grammatical Form and `Weltansicht'; O. Gundersen. Language as Sign and Use: A Study of Certain Aspects of Saussure's View of Language; M. Gustavsson. Part II: Prejudiced Preconceptions: Notions of Language Within Linguistics and Feminist Epistemology. Expression and Content in Linguistic Theory; S. Öhman. The History of Swedish Grammar and Professor Chomsky; S. Haapamäki. How Ordinary is Ordinary Experience? Language in Feminist Epistemology and Philosophy of Science; S. Rider. Part III: The Practice of Meaning and Truth. Putnam on Truth; F. Stoutland. Meaning, Saying, Truth; M. Gustafsson.Part IV: Themes from Wittgenstein. Wittgenstein, Meursault and the Difficulty of Philosophy; P. Segerdahl. Wittgenstein, Logical Form and Grammatical Remarks; T. Johansson. On Rule-Following; J. Wilhelmi. Are We all Trapped in Nonsense? G. Steingrímsson. On the Need for a Listener and Community Standards; L. Hertzberg. References. Notes on the Contributors. Index.