| • | Philosophy of language is the branch of philosophy that studies language. Its primary concerns include the nature of linguistic meaning, reference, language use, language learning and creation, language understanding, truth, thought and experience (to the extent that both are linguistic), communication, interpretation, and translation.
At heart, the discipline is concerned with five fundamental issues.
· How are sentences composed into a meaningful whole, and what are the meanings of the parts of sentences?
Source: [wikipedia: philosophy of language]
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