Research Catalog

Title

Incommensurability and cross-language communication / Xinli Wang.

Author

Wang, Xinli, 1956-

Publication

Aldershot, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate Pub. Ltd., c2007.

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Description

xii, 367 p.; 24 cm.

Series Statement

Ashgate new critical thinking in philosophy

Subject

• Comparison (Philosophy)
• Contrastive linguistics
• Comparative linguistics
• Translating and interpreting
• Communication

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [353]-361) and index.

Contents

The many facets of incommensurability -- Incommensurability as untranslatability -- Incommensurability and conceptual schemes -- In defence of the very notion of conceptual schemes -- Case studies : the emergence of truth-value gaps -- Toward the presuppositional interpretation -- Kuhn's taxonomic incommensurability : a reconstruction -- A defence of the notion of semantic presupposition -- The structure of a pre-suppositional language -- Existential presumptions and universal principles -- Categorical frameworks -- The failure of cross-language understanding -- Hermeneutic understanding in abnormal discourse -- Informative communication breakdown : the transmission model -- Dialogical communication breakdown I : Gadamer's conversation model -- Dialogical communication breakdown II : Habermas's discourse model -- The concept of incommensurability.

Call Number

JFE 07-4696

ISBN

• 075463034X (hardcover : alk. paper)
• 9780754630340 (hardcover : alk. paper)

LCCN

2006011548

OCLC

• 67374944
• vendorOCM67374944

Author

Wang, Xinli, 1956-

Title

Incommensurability and cross-language communication / Xinli Wang.

Imprint

Aldershot, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate Pub. Ltd., c2007.

Series

Ashgate new critical thinking in philosophy

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (p. [353]-361) and index.

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Table of contents only

Research Call Number

JFE 07-4696