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Philosophy of language is the branch of philosophy that studies language. Its primary concerns include the nature of linguistic meaning, reference, language use, language learning, and language understanding, truth, thought (to the extent that it is linguistic), communication, interpretation, and translation.
Plato and Aristotle were concerned with language as were the stoics, medieval philosophers and many modern western philosophers such as Leibniz, John Locke, Vico, Johann Georg Hamann , Johann Gottfried Herder, Immanuel KantImmanuel Kant ( April 22, 1724 February 12, 1804) was a Prussian philosopher, generally regarded as the last major philosopher of the Enlightenment, having a major impact on the Romantic and Idealist philosophies of the 19th century, and as one of history, Hegel, Wilhelm von HumboldtKarl Wilhelm von Humboldt ( June 22 1767 April 8 1835), government functionary, foreign diplomat, philosopher, founder of Humboldt Universitat in Berlin, friend of Goethe and especially of Schiller, is especially remembered as a German linguist who introd, Charles PeirceCharles Sanders Peirce ( September 10, 1839 April 19, 1914) was an American mathematician, philosopher and logician. Peirce s name is pronounced like purse not like pierce''. He is considered to be the founder of pragmatism and the father of modern semiot and Friedrich NietzscheFriedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche ( October 15, 1844 August 25, 1900) was a highly influential German philosopher. His Life Nietzsche was born on October 15, 1844 in the small town of Rocken bei Lutzen, not too far from Leipzig, Saxony. He was born on the 49th.
For reasons still to explore in the 20th century "language" became an even more central 'theme' within the most diverse traditions.
Among the most important are:
- A theory of language as part of a general theory of symbolic forms ( Ernst CassirerErnst Cassirer ( July 28, 1874 April 13, 1945) was a German philosopher. He became a doctor of philosophy at University of Marburg in 1899 where he studied with Hermann Cohen and Paul Natorp, thus being widely considered a neo-Kantian although he later de)
- Philosophers who tied up to the humboldtian tradition ( Walter BenjaminWalter Benjamin ( July 15, 1892- September 27, 1940) was a German Jewish Marxist literary critic and philosopher. Life and work Benjamin was known during his life primarily for his philosophical essays and as a critic. As a sociological and cultural criti, Martin HeideggerMartin Heidegger ( September 26, 1889 May 26, 1976) was a German philosopher. He studied at the University of Freiburg under Edmund Husserl, the founder of phenomenology, and became a professor there in 1928. He influenced many other major philosophers, a)
- Marxist theoreticians ( Vološinov , Rossi-Landi )
- Post-structuralism ( Michel Foucault, Jacques Derrida)
- Feminist theoreticians ( Hélène Cixous, Julia Kristeva, Judith Butler)
- Theoreticians of literature whose work is of philosophical relevance ( Mikhail Bakhtin, Maurice Blanchot, Paul de Man)
- Philosophically oriented forms of semiotics following Charles Peirce ( Umberto Eco)
- In the English-speaking world philosophical discourse about language was dominated by Analytical philosophy which derives from the work of Gottlob Frege, and makes extensive use of modern logic and linguistics.
