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John Kulvicki explores the many ways in which pictures can be meaningful, taking inspiration from the philosophy of language. Pictures are important parts of communicative acts. They express a variety of thoughts, and they are also representations. Kulvicki shows how the meanings of pictures let us put them to a wide range of communicative uses.

Argues that productive Marxist engagements with the philosophy of language during the 1920s-1930s were more common than generally believed & that they continued well into the Stalinist period. Three factors that determined the direction of Soviet work on language were: (1) the condition of language studies at the time of the Revolution & the influence of both Western scholarship & the Moscow Linguistic School; (2) utilitarian tasks of linguists during the Revolution, such as spreading literacy to the masses; & 3) the impact of Marxism on linguists. Nikolai Marr's (1865-1934) so-called "new doctrine on language" is examined, along with post-revolution institutions that included important figures who studied language from a Marxist perspective; & features of "Marrism" that influenced the work of Leningrad linguists. Other issues discussed include debates over the formation of a unified (trans-class) national language; the sociolinguistics of capitalist development & its conceptualized transformation by the proletariat; & the impact on Leningrad linguists of the Cultural Revolution's regressive tendencies. J. Lindroth

Methodological introduction : intentionality as meaning and meaningfulness -- The phenomenological approach to intentionality -- The non-conceptual content of perceptual experience and the possibility of demonstrative thought -- Phenomology and the unity of the proposition -- Grasping at straws : motor intentionality and the cognitive science of skillful action.

Problems of communication in intercultural dialogue typically arise when the communicators understand concepts of meaning and identity in strikingly different ways. This article employs influential assumptions in modern philosophy of language to discuss fundamental aspects of these problems. Drawing on a distinction between beliefs and values, it is argued that intercultural communication typically fails when communicators have different values and do not acknowledge that culturally shaped values are different from beliefs and thoughts. Within a hermeneutical approach to understanding, it is explained how an understanding of the nature of values can help secure successful intercultural communication. Cases of cultural conflict are used to clarify this and other practical implications of the philosophical analyses that are developed.

This work discusses philosophical problems of perceptual content, the content of deomonstrative thoughts, and the unity of proposition. By demonstrating a connection between phenomenology and analysis, Kelly suggests ways in which they can be fruitfully pursued

Jennifer Saul presents a close analysis of the distinction between lying to others and misleading them. Shedding light on key debates in philosophy of language and tackling the widespread moral preference for misleading over lying, she establishes a new view on the moral significance of the distinction