ABSTRACT
At the end of the ‘Three traditions of philosophy’ section above, I claimed that Phenomenology and Existentialism are not primarily philosophies of language. This may seem something of an over-generalization. After all, two of the most prominent figures in the field, Husserl and Merleau-Ponty, have both had a good deal to say about language. But still there is a very great difference between a philosophy that merely takes in a theory of language and a philosophy that is actually founded upon a theory of language.
