{"product_id":"language-and-meaning-in-the-james-mcelvenny-9781474425032","title":"Language and Meaning in the Age of Modernism: C.K. Ogden and His Contemporaries","description":"\u003cp\u003eExplores the origins of key concepts in semantics and semiotics.\u003cbr\u003eThis book explores the influential currents in the philosophy of language and linguistics of the first half of the twentieth century, from the perspective of the English scholar C. K. Ogden (1889-1957). Ogden was connected to several of the most significant figures of the modernist period, including Bertrand Russell, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Victoria Lady Welby, Otto Neurath and Rudolf Carnap. In investigating these connections, this book reveals links between early analytic philosophy, semiotics and linguistics in a crucial period of their respective histories and in turn sheds light on the intellectual history of the early twentieth century.\u003cbr\u003eReaders are introduced to the important interaction between Ogden's thought and Victoria Lady Welby's 'significs', Bertrand Russell and Ludwig Wittgenstein's 'logical atomism' in its various forms, and the philosophy and political activism of Otto Neurath and Rudolf Carnap of the Vienna Circle. McElvenny also examines the background to the ideas espoused in Ogden's book \u003ci\u003eThe Meaning of Meaning\u003c\/i\u003e, co-authored with I. A. Richards, along with the application of these ideas in Ogden's international language project \u003ci\u003eBasic English\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e James McElvenny\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1474425038\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781474425032\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Edinburgh University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/16\/2018\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 200\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.01lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.30h x 6.00w x 0.60d","brand":"James McElvenny","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48065621688575,"sku":"9781474425032","price":130.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_9f3b8b4e-416e-441f-8c86-ed101e3c7567.jpg?v=1768676191","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/language-and-meaning-in-the-james-mcelvenny-9781474425032","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}