The Bloomsbury Research Handbook of Indian Philosophy of Language by Graheli, Alessandro -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Half-Title Series Title Contents List of Contributors Introduction Part One Of Speech Units: Phonemes, Words, and Sentences Introduction

Introduction 1 Linguistic Segmentation in Early Vyākaraṇa 2 From Permanent Phonemes to Words 3 Ontology and Epistemology of Speech in Nyāya 4 The Theory of the Sphoṭa 5 A Buddhist Refutation of Sphoṭa 6 The Place of Language in the Philosophy of the Recognition

Part Two Of Word Meanings

Introduction 7 Early Nyāya on the Meaning of Common Nouns 8 Dignāga on Relation 9 Meanings of Words and Sentences in Mīmāṃsā 10 Śabdārtha as Sense or Reference: Dharmakīrti on Synonymy 11 Semantic Relations and Causation of Verbal Knowledge 12 Human Intellect and God’s Will in Navya Nyāya Semantics

Part Three Of Sentence Meanings

Part Four Of Implicatures and Figurative Meanings

Introduction 18 Kumārila on the Role of Implicature in Sentence-Signification 19 The Intentionality of Words: Jayanta’s Syncretism of Nyāya and Mīmāṃsā 20 Rasa as Sentence Meaning 21 Meaning beyond Words: The Implicature Wars

Chronology Glossary Annotated Bibliography of Indian Philosophy of Language Index Copyright