Language Game of Confessing One's Belief: Wittgensteinian-Austinian Approach to the Linguistic Analysis of Creedal Statements (Linguistische Arbeiten)

Over the past few decades, the book series Linguistische Arbeiten [Linguistic Studies], comprising over 500 volumes, has made a significant contribution to the development of linguistic theory both in Germany and internationally. The series will continue to deliver new impulses for research and maintain the central insight of linguistics that progress can only be made in acquiring new knowledge about human languages both synchronically and diachronically by closely combining empirical and theoretical analyses. To this end, we invite submission of high-quality linguistic studies from all the central areas of general linguistics and the linguistics of individual languages which address topical questions, discuss new data and advance the development of linguistic theory. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS TABLE OF CONTENTS LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS INTRODUCTION PART ΟΝΕ: THE LINGUISTIC TURN Chapter I. A CRITICAL SURVEY OF THE LINGUISTIC ANALYSES OF RELIGIOUS LANGUAGE Chapter II. METHODOLOGICAL CONSIDERATIONS PART TWO: THE LINGUISTIC ANALYSIS OF CREEDAL STATEMENTS Chapter III. THE INNER DYNAMIC OF CREEDAL STATEMENTS Chapter IV. THE LINGUISTIC TOPOGRAPHY OF CREEDAL STATEMENTS Chapter V. THΕ QUESTION OF “MEANING” AND “TRUTH” REGARDING CREEDAL STATEMENTS Chapter VI. THE “FORM OF LIFE” OF CREEDAL STATEMENTS CONCLUSION BIBLIOGRAPHY APPENDIX The book series Linguistische Arbeiten (LA) publishes high-quality work in linguistics that addresses current issues in synchrony and diachrony, theoretically or empirically oriented.