Language Loss and Illocutionary Silencing.
The twenty-first century will witness an unprecedented decline in the diversity of the world's languages. While most philosophers will likely agree that this decline is lamentable, the question of what exactly is lost with a language has not been systematically explored in the philosophical literatu...
| Publicado en: | Mind (0026-4423) Vol. 129; no. 515; pp. 831 - 866 |
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Oxford University Press / USA
Jul2020
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