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Bernard Harrison

Other affiliations: University of Sussex
Bio: Bernard Harrison is an academic researcher from University of Utah. The author has contributed to research in topics: Meaning (philosophy of language) & Literary criticism. The author has an hindex of 7, co-authored 17 publications receiving 207 citations. Previous affiliations of Bernard Harrison include University of Sussex.

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01 Jan 2003

91 citations

Book
15 Dec 2003
TL;DR: The authors argue that the link between language and world is a two-stage one, in which meaning is used and in which a natural language should be understood as fundamentally a collection of socially devised and maintained practices.
Abstract: This important book proposes a new account of the nature of language, founded upon an original interpretation of Wittgenstein. The authors deny the existence of a direct referential relationship between words and things. Rather, the link between language and world is a two-stage one, in which meaning is used and in which a natural language should be understood as fundamentally a collection of socially devised and maintained practices. Arguing against the philosophical mainstream descending from Frege and Russell to Quine, Davidson, Dummett, McDowell, Evans, Putnam, Kripke and others, the authors demonstrate that discarding the notion of reference does not entail relativism or semantic nihilism. A provocative re-examination of the interrelations of language and social practice, this book will interest not only philosophers of language but also linguists, psycholinguists, students of communication and all those concerned with the nature and acquisition of human linguistic capacities.

31 citations

Book
01 Jan 1991
TL;DR: The authors reconcile humanism and deconstruction the defence of wit - Sterne, Locke, and the particular Forster and Moore deconstructing Derrida Muriel Spark and Jane Austen the text as interrogator.
Abstract: How to reconcile humanism and deconstruction the defence of wit - Sterne, Locke, and the particular Forster and Moore deconstructing Derrida Muriel Spark and Jane Austen the text as interrogator - Muriel Spark and Job rhetoric and the self parable and transcendence secrets and surfaces the truth about metaphor.

24 citations

Book
01 Jan 2006
TL;DR: The authors argue that the dominant climate of liberal opinion disseminates, however inadvertently, a range of anti-Semitic assertions and motifs of the most traditional kind, and advocate a return to an unrestricted anti-racism which would allow liberals to defend Palestinian interests without demonizing Jews.
Abstract: Written by a non-Jewish analytic philosopher, this book addresses the issue of whether, and to what extent, current opposition to Israel on the liberal-left embodies anti-Semitic stances. It argues that the dominant climate of liberal opinion disseminates, however inadvertently, a range of anti-Semitic assertions and motifs of the most traditional kind. It advocates a return to an unrestricted anti-racism which would allow liberals to defend Palestinian interests without demonizing Jews.

20 citations

Book
15 Dec 2003

15 citations


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01 Dec 2004
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2,279 citations

MonographDOI
03 Jul 2003
TL;DR: In this article, the construction of modernity and its others in seventeenth-and eighteenth-century England is discussed. And the critical foundations of national epic: Hugh Blair, the Ossian controversy, and the rhetoric of authenticity.
Abstract: 1. Introduction 2. Making language safe for science and society: from Francis Bacon to John Lock 3. Antiquaries and philologists: the construction of modernity and its others in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century England 4. The critical foundations of national epic: Hugh Blair, the Ossian controversy, and the rhetoric of authenticity 5. Johann Gottfried Herder: language reform, das Volk, and the patriarchal state in eighteenth-century Germany 6. The Brothers Grimm: scientizing, textual production in the service of romantic nationalism 7. Henry Rowe school craft and the making of an American textual tradition 8. The foundation of all future researches: Franz Boas, George Hunt, Native American texts and the construction of modernity 9. Conclusion.

786 citations

01 Jan 2011
TL;DR: In semiotics, denotation and connotation are terms describing the relationship between the signifier and its signified, and an analytic distinction is made between two types of signifieds: a denotative signified and a connotative signifier as mentioned in this paper.
Abstract: Beyond its 'literal' meaning (its denotation), a particular word may have connotations: for instance, sexual connotations. 'Is there any such thing as a single entendre?' quipped the comic actor Kenneth Williams (we all know that 'a thing is a phallic symbol if it's longer than it's wide', as the singer Melanie put it). In semiotics, denotation and connotation are terms describing the relationship between the signifier and its signified, and an analytic distinction is made between two types of signifieds: a denotative signified and a connotative signified. Meaning includes both denotation and connotation.

409 citations

Journal ArticleDOI
01 Jan 2010-Language
TL;DR: This article used probabilistic models of corpus data in a novel way, to measure and compare the syntactic predictive capacities of speakers of different varieties of the same language, and found that speakers' knowledge of probablistic grammatical choices can vary across different languages and can be detected psycholinguistically in the individual.
Abstract: The present study uses probabilistic models of corpus data in a novel way, to measure and compare the syntactic predictive capacities of speakers of different varieties of the same language. The study finds that speakers' knowledge of probabilistic grammatical choices can vary across different varieties of the same language and can be detected psycholinguistically in the individual. In three pairs of experiments, Australians and Americans responded reliably to corpus model probabilities in rating the naturalness of alternative dative constructions, their lexical-decision latencies during reading varied inversely with the syntactic probabilities of the construction, and they showed subtle covariation in these tasks, which is in line with quantitative differences in the choices of datives produced in the same contexts.

289 citations