Ludwig Wittgenstein His Place in the Development of Semantics
Various students of general linguistics and semantics quote and discuss Wittgenstein, among others, OGDEN and RICHARDS (1960), ULLMANN (1951, 1962), PAGLIARO (1952, 1957), WELLS (1960), REGNELL (1960) and 1 ZIFF (1960). For the most part however they quot
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Editors MORRIS HALLE, PETER HARTMANN,
MIT
MiinsterjW. Madras
K. KUNJUNNI RAJA, BENSON MA TES,
Univ. of California
J. F. ST AAL,
Amsterdam
PIETER A. VERBURG, JOHN W. M. VERHAAR
Groningen
(Secretary), Manila
Ateneo de Manila University
VOLUME 3
LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN HIS PLACE IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF SEMANTICS
TULLIO DE MAURO
LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN HIS PLACE IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF SEMANTICS
SPRINGER-SCIENCE+BUSINESS MEDIA, B.V.
ISBN 978-90-481-8321-0 ISBN 978-94-017-2119-6 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-94-017-2119-6 1967 All rights reserved No part of this volume may be reproduced in any form by print, photoprint, microfilm, or any other means without permission from the publisher Softcover reprint of the hardcover 1st edition 1967
EDITORIAL NOTE
In recent research in semantics the attention of linguists has been deservedly concentrated on the works of Katz and Fodor, Katz and Postal, Katz, Bierwisch, Fillmore, Weinreich, Lyons and Staal. However, there is a distinctly different tradition of semantic studies, especially in Romance linguistics and some trends of continental European philosophy. This tradition has interesting affinities with the later Wittgenstein. The present monograph pursues mainly those traditions, while leaving out of account, purely for reasons of delimitation of the subject matter, the more recent strands in semantic research. It was written three years ago, which is the reason why more recent studies, mainly as contained in Noam Chomsky's Cartesian Linguistics, which is of great importance for further research in the European tradition, has not been included. In his 'Prefatory Note' the author lists some later publications relating to certain issues brought up in this monograph. The trend elaborated in the present monograph differs, perhaps, from recent research in semantics for the most part in that both the speech situation and those factors in speech resisting formalization by reason of their situational involvement receive considerably more attention in the former. JOHN
W. M.
VERHAAR
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PREFATORY NOTE
Certain points of view adopted in this monograph have been elaborated and refined in latcr studies. As for the history of semantic theory, K. O. Apel brings out the importance of Philosophical Investigations ('Wittgenstein und das Problem des hermeneutischen Verstehens', Zeitschrift fiir Theologie und Kirche 63 (1966), 49-81) and N. Chomsky demonstrates the remarkable relevance of 17th- and 18th-century philosophy of language in Cartesian Linguistics (New York 1966); some further episodes in the history of rationalistic thought are discussed in my Introduzione alia semantica (Bari 1965; 2nd ed. 1966, pp. 47-72, 170-2); Saussurc's position, here barely touched upon, is morc closely examined in my introduction and commentary to the Italian translation of the Cours de linguistique generale (Bari 1961). The degree to which production and interpretation of thc linguistic sign depend on the surrounding extralinguistic framework has been studied by L. Prieto in Principes de noologie (The
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