Language and Meaning in the Age of Modernism: C.K. Ogden and His Contemporaries

James McElvenny

This book explores the influential currents in the philosophy of language and linguistics of the first half of the twentieth century, from the perspective of the English scholar C. K. Ogden (1889–1957). It reveals links between early analytic philosophy, semiotics and linguistics in a crucial period of their respective histories.

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Language and Meaning in the Age of Modernism

C.K. Ogden and His Contemporaries

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Frontmatter
pp i-iv

Contents
pp v-v

List of Figures
pp vi-vi

Acknowledgements
pp vii-viii

1 - Introduction
pp 1-6

2 - The Meaning of Meaning
pp 7-53

3 - Basic English
pp 54-112

4 - Ogden and the Vienna Circle
pp 113-153

5 - Epilogue
pp 154-163

Bibliography
pp 164-185

Index
pp 186-188

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