Alhassanain(p) Network for Heritage and Islamic Thought

The Creative Aspect of Language Use and the Implications for Linguistic Science

This book is corrected and edited by Al-Hassanain (p) Institue for Islamic Heritage and Thought

• Abstract
• 1. The Creative Aspect of Language Use
• 1.1. Unboundedness
• 1.2. Stimulus Freedom
• 1.3. Coherence and Appropriateness to Circumstance
• 2. Linguistics and Science
• 2.1. Internalism, Externalism, and Science
• 2.2. Internalism versus Individualism
• 3. Can Externalism Form the Basis of a Science of Language?
• 3.1. Horwich’s Use-Theory of Meaning
• 3.2. Problems with Use-Theories of Meaning
• 3.3. Problems with Externalist Theories in General
• 4. The Internalist Explanation of the Creative Aspect of Language Use
• 4.1. Semantics and Chomskyan Internalism
• 5. Concluding Remarks
• References
• Notes