《语言哲学：在现代西方语言学的背后》从语言学和哲学角度来论述语言学的理论基础，将两者紧密结合起来，不仅符合当今跨学科研究的发展趋势，有助于加强语言学界和哲学界的紧密合作，而且有利于加深语言学学习者对语言学理论的认识。全书脉络清晰，语言简洁流畅，论述深入浅出，对大学教师和在读学生都有重要的指导意义。

PREFACE
前言
PART ONE Early Development
Unit 1 Language in Ancient Chinese Philosophy
Unit 2 Language in Ancient Greek Philosophy
Unit 3 0verview of the Discussions
PART TWO Battles over Reference
Unit 4 0nset of the Controversy
Unit 5 The Dominance of Description Theory
Unit 6 Seesaw Struggle with the Foes
Unit 7 The Final Demise
Unit 8 Rise of a New Power
Unit 9 Combating Puzzles and Challenges
Unit 10 Getting Trapped in Problems
Unit 11 Comparing the Two Armies
Unit 12 Renovating the Causal Theory
Unit 13 Extending the Causal Theory
PART THREE Meaning as Intension
Unit 14 John Locke and the Idea Theory
Unit 15 Focus on Propositions
Unit 16 Verifying the Proposition
Unit 17 Finding Truth Conditions
PART FOUR Meaning as Use
Unit 18 Early and Later Wittgenstein
Unit 19 0rdinary Language Philosophy and the“Thought
Experiment”
Unit 20 Speaker Meaning and Sentence Meaning
Unit 21 Austin’S Speech Act Theory
Unit 22 The Cooperative Principle
Unit 23 Conversational Implicature
Unit 24 The Impact of Austin and Grice
PART FIVE Language as Mental System
Unit 25 Trapped in the Movie Show：Structuralism
Unit 26 Putting the Cart before the Horse：Linguistic Relativism
Unit 27 Universal Grammar and the Chomskyan Defense
Unit 28 Criticizing the Master
Unit 29 The Importance of Idiom Competence
Unit 30 Seeking an Alternative
PART SIX Epi logue
Unit 31 Being a Good Language Learner
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