Incommensurability and Cross-Language Communication
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Incommensurability and Cross-Language Communication

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Incommensurability and Cross-Language Communication

About this book

A dominant epistemological assumption behind Western philosophy is that it is possible to locate some form of commonality between languages, traditions, or cultures - such as a common language or lexicon, or a common notion of rationality - which makes full linguistic communication between them always attainable. Xinli Wang argues that the thesis of incommensurability challenges this assumption by exploring why and how linguistic communication between two conceptually disparate languages, traditions, or cultures is often problematic and even unattainable. According to Wang's presuppositional interpretation of incommensurability, the real secret of incommensurability lies in the ontological set-ups of two competing presuppositional languages. This book provides many original contributions to the discussion of incommensurability and related issues in philosophy and offers valuable insights to scholars in other fields, such as anthropology, communication, linguistics, scientific education, and cultural studies.

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Publisher
Routledge
Year
2017
Print ISBN
9781138264144
eBook ISBN
9781351928151
Topic
Philosophy
Subtopic
Philosophy History & Theory

Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Table of Contents
  5. Acknowledgements
  6. Chapter 1 The Many Facets of Incommensurability
  7. Chapter 2 Incommensurability as Untranslatability
  8. Chapter 3 Incommensurability and Conceptual Schemes
  9. Chapter 4 In Defense of the Very Notion of Conceptual Schemes
  10. Chapter 5 Case Studies: The Emergence of Truth-Value Gaps
  11. Chapter 6 Toward the Presuppositional Interpretation
  12. Chapter 7 Kuhn’s Taxonomic Incommensurability: A Reconstruction
  13. Chapter 8 A Defense of the Notion of Semantic Presupposition
  14. Chapter 9 The Structure of a Presuppositional Language
  15. Chapter 10 Existential Presumptions and Universal Principles
  16. Chapter 11 Categorical Frameworks
  17. Chapter 12 The Failure of Cross-Language Understanding
  18. Chapter 13 Hermeneutic Understanding in Abnormal Discourse
  19. Chapter 14 Informative Communication Breakdown: The Transmission Model
  20. Chapter 15 Dialogical Communication Breakdown I: Gadamer’s Conversation Model
  21. Chapter 16 Dialogical Communication Breakdown II: Habermas’s Discourse Model
  22. Chapter 17 The Concept of Incommensurability
  23. Bibliography
  24. Index

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