Language and Phenomenology

<p>At first blush, phenomenology seems to be concerned preeminently with questions of knowledge, truth, and perception, and yet closer inspection reveals that the analyses of these phenomena remain bound up with language and that consequently phenomenology is, inextricably, a philosophy of language. Drawing on the insights of a variety of phenomenological authors, including Husserl, Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty, Gadamer, and Ricoeur, this collection of essays by leading scholars articulates the distinctively phenomenological contribution to language by examining two sets of questions. The first set of questions concerns the relatedness of language to experience. Studies exhibit the first-person character of the philosophy of language by focusing on lived experience, the issue of reference, and disclosive speech. The second set of questions concerns the relatedness of language to intersubjective experience. Studies exhibit the second-person character of the philosophy of language by focusing on language acquisition, culture, and conversation. This book<i> </i>will be of interest to scholars of phenomenology and philosophy of language.</p> <p>PART I</p><p>Language and Experience 19</p><p>1 Language and Experience: Phenomenological Dimensions 21</p><p>DANIEL O. DAHLSTROM</p><p>2 Merleau-Ponty on Expression and Meaning 43</p><p>TAYLOR CARMAN</p><p>3 On Husserl’s Concept of the Pre-predicative: Genealogy of Logic and Regressive Method 56</p><p>DOMINIQUE PRADELLE</p><p>4 Husserlian Phenomenology, Rule-Following, and Primitive Normativity 74</p><p>JACOB RUMP</p><p>5 The Place of Language in the Early Heidegger’s Development of Hermeneutic Phenomenology 92</p><p>SCOTT CAMPBELL</p><p><b>6 <i>Logos</i>, Perception, and the Ontological Function of Discourse in Phenomenology: A Theme from Heidegger’s Reading of Aristotle </b>115</p><p>LESLIE MACAVOY</p><p>7 We Are a Conversation: Heidegger on How Language Uncovers 132</p><p>KATHERINE WITHY</p><p>8 The Phenomenology of Poetry 149</p><p>JENNIFER ANNA GOSETTI-FERENCEI</p><p>PART II</p><p>Language and Joint Experience 175</p><p>9 Complex Community: Toward a Phenomenology of Language Sharing 177</p><p>ANDREW INKPIN</p><p>10 The Scaffolding Role of a Natural Language in the Formation of Thought: Edmund Husserl’s Contribution 194</p><p>POL VANDEVELDE</p><p>11 Widening the World through Speech: Husserl on the Phenomenon of Linguistic Appropriation 212</p><p>MICHELE AVERCHI</p><p>12 The Priority of Language in World-Disclosure: Back to the Beginnings in Childhood 229</p><p>LAWRENCE J. HATAB</p><p>13 Play in Conversation: The Cognitive Import of Gadamer’s Theory of Play 248</p><p>CAROLYN CULBERTSON</p><p><b>14 Translating Hospitality: A Narrative Task </b>264</p><p>RICHARD KEARNEY</p><p>15 Inflecting “Presence” and “Absence”: On Sharing the Phenomenological Conversation 273</p><p>CHAD ENGELLAND</p>