The Western Classical Tradition in Linguistics - Second Edition - Keith Allan
Aristotle’s legacy
The Western Classical Tradition in Linguistics - Second Edition - Keith Allan
Keith Allan [+]
Monash University
Keith Allan is Professor of Linguistics at Monash University. His research interests focus mainly on aspects of meaning in language, with a secondary interest in the history and philosophy of linguistics. His books include Linguistic Meaning (2 vols, Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1986), Euphemism and Dysphemism: Language Used as Shield and Weapon (with Kate Burridge, OUP, 1991), Natural Language Semantics (Blackwell, 2001), Forbidden Words: Taboo and the Censoring of Language (with Kate Burridge, CUP 2006), Concise Encyclopaedia of Semantics (Elsevier, 2009) and The English Language and Linguistics Companion (with Julie Bradshaw, et al., Palgrave Macmillan, 2010).
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Topics include: Aristotle’s footprints in the linguist’s garden; Some basic Aristotelian assumptions; Aristotle’s parts of speech; Aristotle on the phoneme; Semantic relations in Aristotle; Propositions and their meanings; Aristotle and the Gricean maxims; A summary of Aristotle’s perambulations in the linguistics garden