PHL313 Philosophy of Language
Professor: Craig DeLancey
Office: CC217
Email: delancey@oswego.edu
Current Assignments
I do not accept homeworks by email!
Metaphor
23 November
Please read:
"What Metaphors Mean" by Donald Davidson, Critical
Inquiry, Vol. 5, No. 1, Special Issue on Metaphor (Autumn,
1978), pp. 31-47. If you have trouble with that link, go to
the
JSTOR login page and then use the reference information to
search.
Tentative assignments
Part
13. PERFORMATIVE LANGUAGE.
Homework: describe a performative that we've not described
before. What are the conditions for its success? Reading
analysis; truth-based theory account of performatives.
Part
16. The Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis.
Homework:
reading response.