Whats some good books on philosophy of language?
there was a schizo book i read a while ago about how language is a conscious virus that uses humans to spread/reproduce
Metaphors We Live By- George Lakoff
>how does this make /lit/ feel?
How to Do Things with Words
>>25351776https://www.gutenberg.org/files/5740/5740-pdf.pdf
Thanks everyone.
just skim through Wittgenstein and be done with it. linguists are the scum of philosophy
>>25351945Thisalthough the fastest way to get into philosophy of Language is to read Austin's essay 'Performative Utterances' where he basically gives the quick version of what he later says in 'how to do things with words.'https://www.uvm.edu/~lderosse/courses/lang/Austin(1979).pdfAnother foundational figure in Philosophy of Language is Grice, who also basically summarised his main ideas in a fairly short essay.https://www.uvm.edu/~lderosse/courses/lang/Austin(1979).pdfThese two go very well together, although also yeah, definitely read the Tractatus though it is a bit more of a serious undertaking.
>>25351999put the wrong second link, this is the Grice essay:https://thegricean.github.io/xprag-ling247/readings/grice1975.pdf
>>25351913is it continental nonsense or is it good? I want to read it but a lot of his desciples are charlatans
>>25351982basically this unironically unfortunately...
>>25351982this, especially second book where he invented emoji
>>25351885OP here, I just got that for my birthday. I also got Women, Fire, And Dangerous Things by him too>>25351913I heard Saussure is good but I'm drifting away from continental thought into the arms of analytics>>25351999>>25352003I will look into this, I got a general course on Pragmatics on my e-reader which should be helpful for uncovering new concepts.related, but I'm also interested in theories of meaning like Searle and Putnam too.
