Language and Ontology
Contents: Preface. Editorial Note. List of contributors. 1. Epistemology of values and language-forms for valuations/Kalyan Bagchi. 2. Language of exclusion and discrimination/Sandhya Basu. 3. Religion: towards exploring a new ground for semantics and ontology/Amitabha Das Gupta. 4. Theory, observation and the locus of scientific rationality: post-positivist perspective/Minakshi Roy Choudhari. 5. The Nyaya theory of denotation (Sakti)/Jagat Pal. 6. "Samjna, Sakyatavacchedaka and the realm of referents: a Navya Nyaya approach/Nandita Bandopadhyaya. 7. Visual language and values in cinema/Gopalan Mullik. 8. Language and reality/Jayanti Jagdeb. 9. Singular thought, communication, and interpretation/Manidipa Sen. 10. On what there was/Nirmalya Narayan Chakraborty. 11. Post Samkara period: language and reality/V.N. Sheshagiri Rao. 12. Aestheticity in language/Arundhati Mukherji. 13. George Berkeley on language and ideas/Surendra Nath Roul. 14. Form of expression and language in Wordsworth\'s theory of poetry/Bishnupada Ray. 15. Dasein and the philosophy of tractatus/Koushik Joardar. 16. Chomsky\'s ontological commitments and its philosophical implications/Jhuma Chakraborty. 17. Recreating ontology through language-game/V. Prabhu. 18. Austin\'s concept of performative as an attempt toward conjoining language and reality/Sati Singh. 19. The ontology of Dhvani/Raghunath Ghosh. 20. Is Meinongian doctrine of Aussersein self-contradictory? an observation/Kanti Lal Das. 21. Mimamsa theory of meaning/Ujjwala Jha. 22. Content-structure and its formal manifestation/V.N. Jha. Index.
"The book highlights the concept of ontology, relationship between language and ontology, the distinction between ontology and reality, the role of linguistic philosophers in dealing with ontology etc. Apart from these, the eminent scholars address themselves with the ontology behind the value of valuation, exclusion and discrimination, inter-religious dialogue, Indian theories of language, values in cinema, poetic language etc." (jacket)
