ANT102H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 21: Bertrand Russell, Linguistics

• School: UTM
• Department: Anthropology
• Course: ANT102H5
• Professor: Victor Barac, Todd Sanders

Document Summary

Philosopher bertrand russell explained how language derived it"s meaning. He aimed at describing it on a logical manner. He used grammar and logical operators linking nouns and verbs. J. l austin looked at actual acts of people performed in ordinary life by means of language. He is considered to be founder of speech act theory. It was assumed by philosophers for very long that statement can only be to describe some state of affairs , or to state some fact. Grammarians have suggested that not all sentences are used to making statements. Many statements are what may be called pseudo statements. Many statements were shown to be as kant perhaps argued systematically strictly nonsense despite an exceptional grammatical form. Many utterances which look like statements are either not intended at all or only intended in part to record or impart straightforward information about the facts.