Harrison Bernard. Word and World: Practice and the Foundations of Language

Cambridge University Press. 2003. — 433 pages. — ISBN: 0521822874Proposing a new account of the nature of language, founded upon an original interpretation of Wittgenstein, Patricia Hanna and Bernard Harrison deny the existence of a direct referential relationship between words and things. Their provocative re-examination of the interrelations of language and social practice will interest not only philosophers of language but also linguists, psycholinguists, and students of communication.