Western philosophy of language:a guide for students of linguistics

　　PREFACE
　　前言
　　PART ONE Early Development
　　 Unit 1 Language in Ancient Chinese Philosophy
　　 Unit 2 Language in Ancient Greek Philosophy
　　 Unit 3 Overview of the Discussions
　　PART TWO Batt les over Reference
　　 Unit 4 Onset of the Controversy
　　 Unit 5 The Dominance of Description Theory
　　 Unit 6 Seesaw Struggle with the Foes
　　 Unit 7 The Final Demise
　　 Unit 8 Rise of a NCW Power
　　 Unit 9 Combating Puzzles and Challenges
　　 Unit 10 Getting Trapped in Problems
　　 Unit 11 Comparing the Two Armies
　　 Unit 12 Renovating the Causal Theory
　　 Unit 13 Extending the Causal Theory
　　PART THREE Meaning as Intension
　　 Unit 14 John Locke and the Idea Theory
　　 Unit 15 Focus on Propositions
　　 Unit 16 Verifying the Proposition
　　 Unit 17 Finding Truth Conditions
　　PART FOUR Mean ing as Use
　　 Unit 18 Early and Later Wittgenstein
　　 Unit 19 Ordinary Language Philosophy and the“Thought Experiment”
　　 Unit 20 Speaker Meaning and Sentence Meaning
　　 Unit 21 Austin’S Speech Act Theory
　　 Unit 22 The Cooperative Principle
　　 Unit 23 Conversational Implicature
　　 Unit 24 The Impact of Austin and Grice
　　PART FIVE Language as Mental System
　　 Unit 25 Trapped in the Movie Show：Structuralism
　　 Unit 26 Putting the Cart before the Horse：Linguistic Relativism
　　 Unit 27 Universal Grammar and the Chomskyan Defense
　　 Unit 28 Criticizing the Master
　　 Unit 29 The Importance of Idiom Competence
　　 Unit 30 Seeking an Alternative
　　PART SIX Epi logue
　　 Unit 31 Being a Good Language Learner
　　REFERENCES
　　INDEX