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HUL856

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HUL856
philosophy of Language
Credits 3
Structure 3-0-0
Pre-requisites
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HUL856 : philosophy of Language

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The course is a study of four major topics: Reference and Descriptions; Truth and Meaning; Pragmatics and Speech Acts; Language and Metaphor. The course covers analyses of the following specific concepts: Sense, Reference, Descriptions, Proper Names, Natural Kind Terms, Truth, Intentional semantics, Communicative Utterances; Figurative Speech.