Words and Thoughts - Subsentences, Ellipsis, and the Philosophy of Language - Hardback - 2006

It is a near truism of philosophy of language that sentences are prior to words--that they are the only things that fundamentally have meaning. Robert's Stainton's study interrogates this idea, drawing on a wide body of evidence to argue that speakers can and do use mere words, not sentences, to communicate complex thoughts.
Year of publication: 2006
Pagination: 262 pages, black & white illustrations
Format: Hardback