As is well known, a text is a speech act, namely the realisation and initiation of linguistic potentialities. Although a text can be described as an independent entity, it only becomes effective in concrete situations of use. One and the same linguistic product can...

George Steiner was a peerless scholar of literature and, with After Babel, first published in 1975, he made an enormously significant contribution to the study of translation. The present volume assembles a dozen distinguished scholars of translation, all of whom...

The book analyses Psychology from an Empirical Standpoint as a methodological work and as a contribution to the positive philosophy of the 19th century. It alsomaintains that empirical psychology Brentano’s is a project independent of his descriptive psychology. In...